It really could have been the best garden ever, but alas, I have fallen short again. The biggest disappointment was that the potatoes in the PVC containers didn’t form, that experiment failed. So did the onions in containers. I think I planted too many in the same pot, so they stayed small. The leaves have wilted to nothing, so I am harvesting “pearl” sized onions, More
April was just such a hectic month around here that I barely had time to get the garden going, but not to write about it. First, the last of the winter garden has been harvested, processed and eaten. Lots of spinach, Swiss chard, snow peas, parsnips and beets have been gracing the table. Tonight’s dinner features a roast chicken with the last of the parsnips. More
As uneventful as December is in the edible garden, late January and early February are really exciting. It’s time to clean the garden beds, pull all the frozen plants, prune perennial herbs, and get the beds ready for spring planting. Today the garden is looking great, and I feel the promise of spring around the corner. Temperatures are still cool enough for a few winter More
Our second annual New Year’s Eve dinner and dance party turned out to be delicious and fun. It stared with a bit of work, as planned, cleaning the garden as best as possible and harvesting things we wanted to use or needed to be picked. I grabbed some of the ‘Early Wonder’ beets, which have proven to be some of my favorites. The roots are More
It’s that time of the year…the weather is (mostly) chilly, the garden needs to be cleaned and harvested, and there are presents to make for friends. I started last week, picking up most of the peppers before the hard freeze: serranos, jalapeños and Hungarian Hot. With the serranos and jalapeños I made traditional rajas en escabeche, the classic Mexican pickled chiles with onion, garlic, carrot More