beet cake, and pink smoothie, here I come
Look what I pulled out of my garden! Tennyson is holding a beet, the size of a cantaloupe, now washed, peeled, and cut into chunks in my freezer. I love fall, when we can pull all the produce out of the garden and put it in jars (fermented) or in the freezer against [...]
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gardening does so much more than provide food
Is there anything better than garden tomatoes? Twenty years ago, we used to make my sister-in-law, when she was a college student, sing a John Denver song before we gave her any of our garden tomatoes: “Only two things that money can’t buy, and that’s true love and home-grown tomatoes!” Yesterday, Apr. 5, I [...]
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More Winter Produce
I had a similar experience. This picture was taken 3/2/06. I covered up my strawberry plants for the winter. When I uncovered them, I found a couple of heads of green leaf lettuce. I had grown lettuce in this bed the year before and it obviously reseeded! It was the [...]
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blooming garden in the dead of winter
After DH built me some winter garden boxes (removable, on top of my square foot boxes), I planted them with onions and chard and spinach last fall. I meant to go out and water them, but, well . . . it’s been a bitter winter here in Utah. I’m kind of lazy and [...]
12 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call, Part IV: network-marketed juices, pills, candy, and skin creams . . .
The juices . . . Xango, Noni, Pharmanex, and some brand-new ones . . . I’ll get some furious emails for this one, because the juice folks are plentiful and have absolute religious fervor about their $30 bottles of juice from the tippy tops of mountains half a world away. There’s a new [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Freebie composting (also, Bob dies)
We’ve had a beautiful Indian summer in Utah, and the last couple of weeks, I’ve come home from my Saturday run past my neighbors bagging their leaves. I asked them to drop the bags off at my house instead of the dump, and we layered them in our compost boxes as the “brown” layer [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →It just keeps giving! On extending the life of the garden—
It’s going to freeze any night now, and I’m leaving town, so we undertook a family project today to bring in most of the remaining garden crops. Since I quit putting up sugar-added, processed food in jars years ago, I’ve learned new ideas to preserve nutritional value in my garden’s yield. Here’s how [...]
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