October 25th, 2009 It was a lovely fall day today, and it’s time to plant next year’s garlic crop. We saved some garlic heads from this year’s crop and I’m anxious to see how well they dried and cured.
First, I have to scrape off the straw mulch and do a bit of weeding.
I like to layout the planting [...]
October 18th, 2009 Doesn’t quite roll off your tongue like picking a “peck” of peppers, does it? But that’s officially what a “peck” is.This year we grew Gypsy (sweet), Anaheim (mildly spicy), Salsa Delight (spicy) and TAM jalapenos (not as hot as regular jalapenos, ’cause we’re pepper wimps).
Last year, we roasted and canned a lot of our hot [...]
October 11th, 2009 One of my favorite fall vegetables is butternut squash.
We start the plants from seed in the spring and let them sprawl all over a straw covered bed in the back of the garden. These are the variety ‘Waltham’ from Johnny’s Seeds.
I think baby butternuts are so cute.
Midsummer, the squash look like this.
They are ready to [...]
August 2nd, 2009 We picked a mess of beets yesterday. Some were as large as a baseball. We grow the Red Ace variety, which does very well for us and they stay very tender – even when they look like baseballs!
Time to do some canning.
First, cut off the greens. Leave a couple of inches of stems attached.
Wash them [...]
July 26th, 2009 It’s that time of year when the neighbors lock their doors and pull down the shades when they spot me approaching with an armload of zucchini. I thought we had three or four to use, but no…we had 27 (yes, TWENTY-SEVEN!) assorted zucchini/summer squashes.
So, how to use them up? They don’t freeze well, and we [...]
