big fat Oxheart carrots

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I pulled the last of my spring crop of carrots. These are the big guys – Oxheart. They are very tasty. Round and fat like and orange. They make a very nice “chip” when sliced horizontally. I still have a big bagful of early carrots (Mokum), a more traditionally shaped and sweeter variety, in my fridge. I took out the bagful for a photo next to the newly pulled Oxhearts. I planted a few more rows of carrots seeds for a fall crop a couple of weeks ago. They sprouted…
 
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weekend potato harvest

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With a bit of help from my 15 year old son, I harvested a nice box full of potatoes on Saturday. I suppose if we were a bit more careful we wouldn’t have pierced so many of them with the digging fork. We did our best. I have mostly white fingerling potatoes, but also some big Russets and reds. They are delicious now – crisp new potatoes. I’ll hang these in a paper bag from the rafters in the basement. I think they will last us a few months. A…
 
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garden work day

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Or should I say ‘garden fun day’. I love a Saturday when I can recruit help from my family in the garden. Today’s plan:Pull beets and find a place to store them (I need a root cellar)Ditto with carrotsDig potatoes – this will be a big job as there are a lot of spuds down thereTransplant fall greens seedlings into the newly cleared beet, carrot and potato bedsWater the garden (first time in a month!)Tie up the tomato vines in my home gardenMake a batch of tomato sauce with the…
 
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new potato and summer squash casserole

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This is a fantastic casserole that I have made a few times now. Its a recipe I made up myself to use the abundant items in my refrigerator. I could eat it every night! Prepare: Freshly dug potatoes, any variety, washed and sliced thin (about 1/8 inch) Summer squash, I like to use mostly yellow varieties, sliced about 1/4-1/2 inch Layer into a baking dish: potato slices squash slices salt and pepper butter slices repeat layers until all vegetables are used (or dish is full…) Top with: Grated mild melting…
 
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the best meal ever ….

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… well, I have been having lots of good meals this summer, but this one was exceptional. My family was here. With picture perfect weather, we all harvested vegetables at my garden, made the food together and then enjoyed it together outside on the patio. Menu cheeses, olives and breads – white, wheat and zucchinifreshly steamed garden edamamegiant carrot slicesSt Supery Virtu Meritage White 2006 rotisserie duck and game hens on the grillnew potato and summer squash casserolegreen beansheirloom tomatoes with mozzarella and basilSt Supery Cabernet Sauvignon birthday cakecapucino Tonight…
 
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more tomato pictures

 
 
These are Giant Belgian tomatoes ripening on the vines in my side yard. These are green Tomango and Pink Beauty tomatoes. tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)
 
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Skippy is in a gardening catalog – but I never new this

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Last week, this advertisement at a small on-line vegetable gardening store was brought to my attention by a reader of this blog. http://www.tastefulgarden.com/store/pc/viewContent.asp?idpage=36 Hmm. There’s Skippy, and there’s my garden. The photos are from my blog in June 2006. Funny no one contacted me the ask about using these photos. So I’ve been looking into copyright issues and blogs. Here’s a good site with lots of information: Internet and the Law at Web Developer’s. This is a quote from Thomas G. Field, Jr. from the same page: Copyright arises automatically…
 
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sliced and yummy

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This is a Brandywine. I took photos of a Giant Belgian tonight and hope to post them soon. This second variety is a new one for me and very much like a Brandywine but even meatier and bigger. I think I will list these two as my favorites, though neither produces many tomatoes. Quality, not quantity…. tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)
 
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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


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thyme, lettuce, escarole

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celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

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cabbage, kale, arugula



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peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

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tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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