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Category Archives: gardening
When Life Gives You Zucchini Make O Konomi Yaki
Evidently I’m pretty good at growing summer squash, and not much else. Of all my garden plants the only two that bore much of anything edible are two very different heirloom squash varieties. They sit next to a trumpet vine so they were pollinated and pollinated and pollinated. Did I mention I live alone? I’m [...]
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What to cook when there's nothing to eat
One of my favorite MFK Fisher books is How to Cook a Wolf. The wolf, of course, is hunger. The point being that a resourceful cook is one who can find something to eat when the larder is empty and the wolf is at the door. I cooked my own wolf the other night. True [...]
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Jolly Green (and yellow!) Giants
Get a load of this! This is one proud, tall sunflower…I'd say about 12-14 feet? Crazy! It makes me happy every time I look at it. Here's our beloved pumpkin. This baby will turn a dark, bumpy orange and be gorgeous and delicious. There are at least 2 more where this came from. Does anyone [...]
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Gardening Mishaps and Triumphs—Too bad we can’t live on sunflowers.
The first year gardening has been a mixture of successes and failures so far. It’s a good thing we don’t actually have to grow our own food (yet) because we’d certainly starve. It’s all a learning process and I don’t get too upset about it. Today we’re going to pull out some of our failures [...]
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First Harvest Salad Bouquet
The first tender leaves of arugula and speckled butter lettuce started from seed back in March. I tossed them with roasted beets, goat cheese and Champagne vinaigrette.
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Community is alive and well…Or, in danger of becoming a gardening blog.
What do you do if you have a couple new raised beds in your backyard and a big pile of rich, black, smelly dirt in the driveway? Make soup! That’s right, make soup. Then call some people up and invite them over for lunch in exchange for hauling a few wheelbarrows full of dirt into [...]
Fried Green Tomatoes & Burrata for Impatient Gardeners