carrot martini
This is a giant purple-skinned carrot that a friend of my mom grew. Perfect for a martini!
vegetables in my larder
While rearranging shelves where I’m storing my winter vegetables, I spread out everything on the patio. Suzie even posed too! I have metal shelves in the dining room for storage now, but am looking forward to building a storage pantry in the spring.
parsley pesto
I think I’ll make Parsley Pesto today while it rains outside. I had a nice patch of basil, but it got the new basil downy mildew and never amounted to anything I could use for pesto. I don’t know what I’ll do next year for basil. Has anyone seen resistant seeds yet? Anyway, I have way too much parsley in the garden, so Parsley Pesto it is! This recipe looks good: Parsley Pesto at Food and Wine.com. I’ll just process the parsley, garlic, olive oil and salt then freeze it.…
today’s garden work
It’s 80*F a couple days after our average first frost date! And warm weather is still ahead of us. It’s great to be still picking peppers and green beans, though the rest of my summer crops have faded with the fading light. i am ready to put up a winter low tunnel over greens, but no need for it yet. the hoops are standing bare and waiting. Work today in my home garden: – pull carrots – pick green and red chile peppers – start bagging late blight infected tomato…
October backyard
Not too bad for a cell phone photo! I forgot my camera at my parents’ house last week. I’ll have to make the hour trip back up there to get it soon. I set this photo as my desktop background. This afternoon the dogs and I took the row boat across the pond to conservation land under those tall pines you can see. We walked on the trails for an hour. Lots of other dogs and people were out walking on this beautiful day. Sad that it took me so…
not much left in the garden
The late fall greens are growing and lots will be ready soon. Hoops are standing bare, awaiting cold weather. The corn is down, I pulled all the carrots and picked all the eggplants. The broccoli is trying to broc again, but may not make it. Green beans are still making a few pods. Shell beans are finishing up. The peppers are going strong. I guess they’ll go right up to a frost.
all you need is a garden and …
A bumper sticker on front of me: “if you have a garden and a library you have all you need.” cissaro Maybe a garden and an Internet connection? and the family, friends and DOGS!
today’s garden work
I spent a few hours in my community garden plot this afternoon. – Pick a few cupfuls of beautiful fall raspberries – Pick at least a gallon of cherry tomatoes. I brought these to Hildy, who delivers donated garden harvests to a local shelter. My single cherry tomato plant (Jasper) is amazing! Its taken over the back corner of my garden and just won’t quit. – Dig one last potato bed for what I thought was the third time. I ended up with about 20 great big All Blue potatoes.…
chicken update
Its been a long haul getting my two new pullets accepted by my two one-year-old hens. I got the pullets mid-August, mail order from McMurray Hatchery. I think this weekend, two months later, they are finally “getting along”. When the pullets first arrived, I kept them in a large metal dog crate next to the chicken run. Occasionally, I let all the chickens out in the yard to forage. At first the big hens chased the pullets and wouldn’t come within 20 feet of them. Over the next couple weeks…
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
My garden this week
Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Egyptian walking onions!
