radish martini !!

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I am hosting a CSA distribution site this summer for Picadilly Farm. The first distribution was this week. They have beautiful vegetables! Lettuce, spinach, hakuri turnips, arugula and beautiful spicy radishes. Definitely worth toasting to! Topic: martini!
 
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bbq’d pizza with grilled garlic scapes

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I picked a big bowl of garlic scapes today. We sauteed them whole in olive oil over the wood fire. Then we chopped and sprinkled them on pizza and grilled the pizza on the fire. The pizza sauce was the last of my garden tomatoes, stored frozen, from last summer. The salad was my first heads of this year’s garden lettuce. Nice to finish the last of last year together with the first of this year.  
 
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rain!

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Its been so dry, but the past two days brought 2 full inches of rain. I weeded well before this, but today the weeds are already thick! Amazing how fast they grow. It will give me a nice day of garden work tomorrow.
 
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wildflowers

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I wish I knew all of these. Beautiful flowers in the fields around my garden. Some are invasives (bindweed), some natives. Photos are a good way to learn their names. wildflowers, weeds, invasives and natives
 
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still bringing worms to the nest

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The chickadees on my patio are still bringing worms to their young. The chirping from inside is getting quite loud. I’m still hoping for photos of the fledgelings.
 
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bok choy

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These are growing well in the cool weather. I’m hoping to harvest a bunch for a BBQ this Friday. It’ll be one of my first harvests. I’m looking forward to grilled bok choy. I’m glad to have some garden produce for the guests who are coming. I think I’ll have my first lettuce ready too and some garlic scapes. This bok choy is the same variety Dan is growing this year and he warned that they are a baby variety and can bolt fast. I don’t know how big I…
 
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UPS delivery – two big boxes!

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The other day I got an email from Chris at Organic Compost Tumbler. “You may have seen our tumbler reviewed on other blogs, …. so, do you want one?” Wow! Do I ever! How fun to review a garden product. The boxes arrived. Two big ones. Last weekend we assembled it. I’ll post the photos soon. In the meantime, here’s Carol’s review of this compost tumbler at May Dreams Gardens. And here’s a quote from the tumbler seller’s site “…in Winter you can move it and put it by your…
 
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radish story

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My friend I gave seeds and a pot to has just harvested radishes! I’m soooo impressed. Way to go Anne Marie! She never grew any vegetables before and wanted to grow something – seed to harvest. With her very young girls. Her garden space is a sunny patio. So she planted a lettuce/mesclun mix and radish in pots. This weekend she pulled her first radish. A pretty round red one, she said. Her little girl tried a slice (brave!) and sadly shook her head and said “Mummy, its too spicy…
 
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more rose photos

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I suppose I should spray this rose a bit with something to help it out. Its putting so much energy into such a beautiful show and the bugs are taking advantage of it. mystery garden rose: Falstaff maybe?
 
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pea blossoms

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Just starting to bloom. I have very few large pea plants though since the squirrels ate so many seeds early in the season. I have kept planting though and just this week I finally have lots of tiny sprouts. I wonder if these will produce peas before the summer heat kills the vines?
 
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Kathy Martin
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy


weeks and counting until my last spring frost

What I planted recently

Jan 21
thyme, lettuce, escarole

Feb 21
celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

March 11
cabbage, kale, arugula



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April 1
peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

April 12
tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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"What can happen to a seed is a miracle."

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