Oct 8, 2012 | Garden Reports and Rejoicing, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, What's for dinner?
As the produce from the garden dwindles, it becomes more important to celebrate what we do have: the last of the eggplant and the final basil harvests. Last night we relished what may be the last fresh pesto (we’ve got a bunch frozen) with a harvest of eggplant...
Sep 29, 2012 | Garden Reports and Rejoicing, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, What's for dinner?, You Can Grow That!
You Can Grow That! It is the start of what is forecast to be a cloudy, cool, rainy week. Yes, the dahlias and zinnias still bloom, and there is new lettuce and chard to be harvested in the vegetable garden. But although treasures still await harvest in the garden, and...
Sep 21, 2012 | Garden Reports and Rejoicing, my gardens, plants I love, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, What's for dinner?
Here we are in late September and we are still eating out of the garden. Two vegetables are particularly impressive right now; I’m continuing to love a squash I’ve planted for five years plus a pepper from Burpee that is my new BFF. Tonight the two got together for...
Sep 7, 2012 | Garden Reports and Rejoicing, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables
There’s one problem with growing your own food: you become a vegetable snob. Gardeners decide that the only corn worth eating are ears that went from the garden to the pot in less than five minutes, for example. I myself will only eat young, slender beans or small...
Aug 27, 2012 | Garden Reports and Rejoicing, my gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables
My cup, basket, carton, salad bowl, and refrigerator runneth over.
Aug 26, 2012 | Garden Reports and Rejoicing, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, What's for dinner?
The name of this dish comes first the sunny color of the golden tomato sauce and Zephyr squash. It’s also appropriate because we’re treasuring being able to create dinner out of freshly picked vegetables as we savor the last warm days of summer. It’s...
