My little delusions
The winter is long for serious (read: addicted) gardeners. Sometimes we try things that might not make sense, like trying to grow an outside veggie…..inside. With an east facing […]
Category Archives: Cooking/Food
Back to the beginning
The pergola looks so bare, cos I just cut the beans down. We had our first hard freeze last night, so now everything out there is officially done. Several of […]
Sharing heirloom seeds
Heirloom seeds will survive if more people plant them, and talking about them with other gardeners and sharing them is the way to get more people to plant them. I’ve […]
October collards are the best
By October it has cooled off some and the plants are making smaller leaves, but they’re sweeter and more tender. Since I’ve been pulling leaves from the bottom of the […]
Fall creeps in………
It will soon come to the time when we can’t enjoy the fresh smell of laundry on the line. It hasn’t rained here much at all lately and the brown […]
Goodies from the end of the garden
Mmmm, stuff from the garden is always the best. I have a few jalapenos left, the regular green ones that have now turned red. Eliza’s purple ones are flowering and […]
Maybe I’m addicted to picking beans
OK, I could be addicted to picking beans, cos I just love picking them off the plants after having helped to teach the plants which way to climb and then […]
King of the Garden Lima beans are now getting serious
My King of the Garden Lima beans are later than other people’s’ Limas, and were last year. I don’t know why that is, but now they have decided to get […]
Thai purple yard long beans really are amazing
They grow like the seed company said they would, and produce a lot of beans. And we can’t eat flowers, but these pretty little orchid-like flowers just make you smile. […]
Hopi Lima beans
My Hopi orange Lima beans have been growing very well and they are terrific producers of flowers and beans, on good strong vines. The pods are smaller than the King […]
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