Well, 17 lbs is not bad for one and a half beds (4’x12′ total), in the shade and without topping up soil (I ran out). The red fingerlings were a bust, the yellow fingerlings did well, the idahoes did best. All seed potatoes were supermarket bought (organic) or came as sprouted (organic) potatoes from a …
Category Archives: food (growing, cooking, preserving)
More Tomatoes
It’s getting a little repetitious, but there were again many more tomatoes. The warm weather continues and there are still many fruits on the vines, so this may not be the last of ’em. I’m looking forward to next summer, when I’ll have the super sunny front patio to grow tomatoes, peppers (can you spot …
Harvests
School has started up again, which might mean that I’ll be able to blog more. No guarantees. In the meantime, we get a harvest like this one almost every other day. I’ll have lots of elderberries to make syrup from, and the cukes and zucchinis will — be –pickled. The tomatoes are still going strong, …
Tomatoes
Ironic, that I didn’t intend to grow tomatoes – getting plenty of them from a local farmstand and from our CSA box – but that I put in just a few seedlings that a friend gave me, and some seedlings I grew to give away but never got to, and that now tomatoes are my …
Earth Oven, Phase 11: Pizza
Today we fired up the oven again and made pizza. We just wanted pizza so didn’t add the rocket stove to the mix for baking. We found a good routine that doesn’t involve rushing. We burned a small fire for about 45 minutes, which was sufficient to bring the baking stone up to 850F: perfect …
Fruit, Veg, Eggs, Honey/Mead, and Books
Quickly. Made 25 pints of blueberry jam from Farmers Market berries and another batch from 5 quarts of berries Amie and I picked at a very locally IPM place with friends one thunderstormy afternoon. We came out of the field drenched but happy and surprised we had been picking for three hours. Our tribe will …
First Harvests
This is one of my favorite times of the year: the first harvests are coming in. For greens, we are eating kale, lettuce, chard and good king Henry, New Zealand spinach, mache, minutina, and celery. All the herbs – parsley, rosemary, sage, etc. are ready. The malabar spinach is almost ready and it’s a lovely …
Might this be a Kiwi Fruit?
{UPDATE} No. See here. In my last post I expressed my hope that Anna’s hunch is correct (at Walden Effect) that my Ananasnayas are self-fertile. I’ve been keeping an eye on the flowers – not hard to do as the vine is literally in my face each time I go near the chickens. Lo and …
Garden Survey
My friend and fellow blogger Kath did a garden survey and inspired me to do the same. It was getting a bit darker on an already gloomy day and everything is still covered in yellow pollen dust, but I managed to snap some pictures. We begin with Amie and the little chickens. They are now …
Rhubarb Pie
Homegrown rhubarb pie, icecream and fresh reading material.