It is really amazing what a 32 square foot garden can produce. This year our garden went wild in greens. We planted several leafy lettuces, chard, collards, kale, two kinds of spinach, arugula, bib lettuce, romaine lettuce and radishes. The more traditional stuff is 3 kinds of yellow squash, zucchini, golden beets, carrots, lemon and [...]
Continue reading about Meatless Monday: My Garden Pea Pod Salad
We had to pull our zucchini, carrots, peppers, chard, spinach, arugula, and mesclun before the big freeze and snow the weekend before T-Day, so we used as much for the big day as possible. This Carnivale squash was a beauty! We’ll try to grow it next year in a bigger place. It was really “squashy” [...]
Continue reading about Meatless Monday: Roasted Root Vegetables in a Squash Cup
We are getting alot of greens out of our garden still. I’ve made sauteed greens, stir-frys, salads, rice/lentil/greens combinations, daal and was running out of ideas. I found this recipe in my recipe stash. I think it is 20 years old and I think it came from Southern Living magazine. I did change it somewhat. [...]
This pizza originated as a Moroccan Pizza at a wonderful vegetarian recipe website from New Zealand, Veggie Num Num. I have changed it somewhat, according to what I had in the garden and in the kitchen. I used my own crust recipe. The crust is really toothsome, not soft and the toppings are not swimming [...]
Continue reading about Meatless Monday’s: Mediterranean Pizza
Well, I thought I’d start out with a shot of our raised bed SQFT garden. It’s been great this year. We have green ice lettuce, arugula, mesculin, spinach, and chard in the first box, four bell peppers (green, lemon (got one so far and 3 babies are growing), orange and tiny red), broccoli rabe, italian [...]
Continue reading about Meatless Monday: Cherry Onion Sweet and Savory Chutney
Last year, Sharon Astyk proposed a nice motivator for gardeners and homesteaders, she called it Independence Days: These are the general daily/weekly guidelines: 1. Plant Something. 2. Harvest Something. 3. Preserve something. 4. Reduce Waste. 5. Preparation and Storage. 6. Build Community Food Systems. 7. Eat The Food! Recapping my week: 1. Planted Peppers, Onions, [...]
Here in Texas, at least in Dallas, there is a dead zone in the year, a time of year when it is too hot and too dry for just about any but the hardiest native plants to grow or produce. But, with the first hint of fall, the morning glories that grow like weeds [...]
Continue reading about Hope for the future – planting for a “second season”
Crossposted at Dailykos.com For those of ye who do not know me well, gardening is sort of a release and a creative direction for me. For those of ye that do, the same. I am inspired by the by the bounty that my garden is now providing, and some of that bounty consists of fresh, [...]
I had one last garden box left to prepare for the year, and I figured that it would make a great tutorial. This method of gardening is foolproof, and hugely productive. Here Is a Step-By-Step Guide With Pictures. I’m planting this particular bed in Beans, so, it should be a pretty universal guide. Different plants, [...]
If, like me, you are fond of spicy foods, the obvious thing to do is to grow your own chilies. Not hard. If you’ve successfully grown tomatoes, you can grow hot peppers. They require similar care and conditions. Here are some tips on how to grow the chili peppers that you love.