Posted in one local summer, growing challenge, locavore, gardens, EatLocalChallenge, eat local on Aug 24th, 2008
What do you do with a glut of snap beans and cauliflower? Why add a few freshly pulled carrots and some languishing summer squash and make sweet summer pickles. These mark the end of our non-cucumber pickles for the year as the tally has gotten a bit ridiculous. It’s going to take us two years […]
Posted in growing challenge, gardens on Aug 21st, 2008
I had a moment tonight standing in the garden. Have you ever had one of those dreams where you’re in college and you show up to take a final and realize that you forgot to go to class or study all semester. And just when you really start to panic you wake up and realize […]
Posted in growing challenge, one local summer, locavore, gardens, eat local on Aug 10th, 2008
Today we pulled the Walla Walla Sweet onions. Last Sunday I knocked over the rest of the tops and then let them sit for a week to finish off, per Steve Solomon’s advice. I intended to pull them today and spread them on a tarp by the barn to cure, but we’ve been having unpredictable […]
Posted in growing challenge, locavore, gardens, EatLocalChallenge, eat local on Aug 7th, 2008
Sick of gardening posts yet? Sorry about it, I’m a bit brain dead right now as we catch up with the garden and I immerse myself in my new job (day 4 tomorrow).
That photo above? That’s just shy of 4 pounds of bush beans. And I’d say it’s about 20% of what we’re going to […]
Posted in growing challenge, gardens on Aug 5th, 2008
I feel like I’m behind in life right now, or at least in the garden. We’re barely caught up on the harvesting and still miles (or maybe pounds?) behind on eating and now we’re behind on the fall planting. Must just be the year for late gardening.
It’s been a struggle to find any space to […]
Posted in chickens, growing challenge, vacation, gardens, eat local on Aug 3rd, 2008
Are you still here? It’s always interesting to see what you’ll return to after a week’s vacation.
This time around the finds included: 2 dead baby chicks, 3.75 pounds of peas, 4 pounds of bush beans, 5 BIG heads of broccoli, a million tiny green tomatoes and other sundry things. If I’d known how far behind […]
Posted in growing challenge, vacation, gardens, eat local on Jul 25th, 2008
No photos tonight as the light wasn’t very good today - too harsh. Last night and tonight I committed murder in the garden. I cut short the lives of 9 broccoli plants, the snow/snap peas, the last of the radish and spinach and a fair number of baby carrots. It was very rewarding.
Exhibit 1 - […]