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Garden Week in Review

John — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:01:49 +0000

First asparagus harvest of 2011. The asparagus is now growing furiously. We had our first full harvest on Monday and by this weekend we’d had another two additional harvests (I consider a harvest enough to feed our family of four). Our favorite way to prepare fresh asparagus is to cut the spears into bite [...read more]

Garden Week in Review

John — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:36:56 +0000

On Monday I went out to the asparagus bed and counted eight spears poking their way up through the soil. By the weekend that number had tripled and most of them look to be nice and fat. I’ve read that asparagus planted too shallow will result in thin, spindly spears. Planting deeper yields fewer [...read more]

fall harvest and saying goodbye to old friends

John — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:35:45 +0000

The last weekend of September and another nice harvest. This has been the growing season that just keeps on giving. Yet all good things must come to an end and it’s time to begin clearing out the beds so we can prepare them for next growing season which, by the way, begins in February [...read more]

another august harvest

John — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:53:01 +0000

I apologize for boring you with yet another August harvest photo but please allow me my indulgences. The eggplants, acorn squash and tomatoes are just so visually luscious…and they taste as good as they look. This has been our best year ever for eggplants, probably due to the unusually warm weather and the luck [...read more]

bountiful august harvest redux

John — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:27:55 +0000

As I walked through my kitchen it popped into my brain that I should post a photo of my counter top as it looks today. What this doesn’t show you are the additional tomatoes sitting off to the side in a basket, the many pounds of vegetables stuffed into my refrigerator, not to mention [...read more]