Romanesco broccoli ooops
Research, research, I didn’t do enough of it. Turns out this broccoli is a cool weather plant and these small heads are the plant going to bolt. I’ve collected […]
Category Archives: Cooking/Food
A good morning harvest
Hmm, tomorrow I’ll make tomato sauce to freeze for winter recipes, and make some cole slaw too. How does your garden grow?
Ahh glorious beans
Limas above. Limas and green beans below, learning to go “over” instead of “up” , crawling on a wire between two 9′ trellises. Jack in the Beanstalk is a […]
Black eyed peas
They’re not like other beans at all. They get bigger before they start to flower, and once the flowers are done and the bean pods come on, they take longer […]
A nice cabbage
If you’ve never grown cabbage and only ever bought it from the store, you automatically think of cabbage as being a thing maybe 6″ across. It’s hard to believe […]
Remember that trellis I named Encouragement?
It’s 9′ tall. Calling it Encouragement worked, and so did good non-GMO seeds, and lots of water and good aged horse manure as fertilizer. (Also continuously getting rid of as […]
Jewel weed and Dykeman Park
Nature provides hidden surprises. If you know how to use the surprises, sometimes it can really help you. Poison ivy is an awful thing, but there is a common weed […]
I grow green beans in the strangest places
And not always on purpose! Last year a green bean seed somehow got among my tomato plants. It gave me as many beans as if it had been growing […]
Sometimes you just need a neat kitchen gadget!
Got zucchini? I don’t, cos I didn’t plant any, but I will next year. Luckily I have a local source with plenty of good ones that are also inexpensive. […]
A few peas….
Picked a few peas. I can save seeds from several things this year cos none of my seeds are GMO now. I found seed companies that can supply all […]
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