This week saw some monumental earthworks, harvest-wise. The onions had all finally fallen over, and were heaving out of the ground, and the potatoes were looking raggedy and limp. The time had come to reap those fruits of the earth and ready the beds for planting for Fall harvest. Last Tuesday we [...]
It being 4th of July weekend, it seemed like a good time to take our camera out into the heavy, humid great outdoors and take a look at the progress of Maple Hoo’s bouteous bounty. This is about as lush as the garden’s going to look this year:
The potato thicket is bustin’ out of [...]
Back in September, 2002 there was a recipe for Chicken and Bulgur Salad with Avocado Food & Wine that I decided to try because I happened to have a bottle of the recommended wine pairing (a 2001 Lindemans Padthaway chardonnay) on hand. This is the first and only time to date that I’ve flipped [...]
We were greatly encouraged by our “poking at the potatoes to see what’s going on down there” test harvest last night, and discovered the Desirees were already way bigger than we really wanted them to be. They were the first of our potatoes to sprout, and the first to flower by far, and now [...]
The potato plants are, officially, completely out of control at this point.
This picture was taking four days ago, and the plants are actually about a quarter again as big now as they were then. If this goes on much longer, they are going to swallow up our house. Which means it’s time to [...]
Okay, last weekend we pulled up two dime-sized radishes and called it a harvest. This weekend our radish chevron had filled in considerably…
…so we had a much more substantial haul:
Those are French Breakfast and Plum Purple radishes; the wee sample ones we tasted last weekend suggested the Frenchies are mild and sweet, while the [...]
The other day Pookie emailed me at work to say, “Check out this link — we need to investigate this green garlic thing!” I proceeded to spend a delightful afternoon reading the rest of Farmgirl Susan’s wonderful blog, and then Pookie and I hatched plans to double-plant our garlic bed next year so we [...]
WOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! We had our first harvest today! Pookie calculated when we planted the first wave of radishes and when the package said they’d be ready to harvest, and she came up with last weekend as the target date. It was abundantly clear to us all that they were not ready to [...]
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