July 22nd, 2009 I think one of the best things about growing tomatoes (other than eating them, of course) is the myriad of shapes, sizes and colors. Each has its own unique quirks and personality.
Some are perfectly round.
Some are Short Round.
Long and fat.
We have hearts…
plums…
and just downright ugly.
Maybe one of these days, I can show you different colors. [...]
July 21st, 2009 I make salsa. A lot of salsa. Almost 12 gallons of the stuff last summer. We grew everything except the onions and garlic. I don’t have room in the garden for onions, and they are always good quality and reasonably priced in the local grocery store.
But sometimes it’s hard to find good garlic. So we [...]
July 21st, 2009 One of the few things growing well after our cool, rainy month of June is broccoli. All ten plants started to flower (yep, you’re eating flower buds, folks) so I walked up to the garden and cut their little heads off. Gardening can be cruel.
So, ten nice heads of broccoli on the counter. Don’t think [...]
July 1st, 2009 It’s so discouraging to walk up to the garden and see a plant that was incredibly healthy last night now looks like this (the one on the left). It appears our old nemesis, pith necrosis, is back. Last year, we lost ten plants to pith necrosis (out of sixty). We already have four plants exhibiting [...]
June 25th, 2009 It’s almost time to pick beets. We still have a few quarts left from last year’s harvest, and a favorite summer side dish of ours is pickled beets.
I use home-canned beets, but the canned ones from the grocery store work just as well.
This original recipe is from the 1944 edition of The Good Housekeeping Cookbook. [...]
