One of the folks on the PDX Backyard Farmers group asked a question that I paraphrase here:
“The tomatillos that I grew last year produced a bunch of seedlings this year. I don’t remember if they were hybrid or heirloom varieties. What am I going to get from these plants?”
I’m no tomatillo expert, but I’ll share [...]
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Tomatillos and The Business of Hybrids
May 7th, 2009 · No Comments
There’s stuff in my ice cream…
March 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments
I just had a bowl of ice cream with my kid. He’s two. I want to feed him things that represent “food” as closely as possible. Hence, all the gardening, chickens, and what-not.
I try to buy local and reasonably organic (knowing that the standards for organic have become kind of bureaucratic and exclusionary for local [...]
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When Life Gives You Green Tomatoes
August 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Another in my series of “I don’t have anything to say about my garden” posts.
The weather here in Portland has… mostly… sucked. First we did the never-ending-winter spring, and now we’re doing the hah-hah-the-fall-rains-have-started summer. Of my one beelion tomatoes, approximately none are ripe.
So, fine, we make the love!
Or… if you can’t get anyone to [...]
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Basil Pesto with Cashews
August 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Normally, I like to procrastinate until my basil’s all gone to seed and gotten real bitter, but this year, I read this country lady’s post about how she made pesto, and I thinks to myself “she doesn’t seem so all-fired smart… I should be able to do that!”
So, here’s my city boy variation:
4 c. fresh [...]
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LUNCH!
July 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Sometimes, I feel like my garden’s not cutting it. I still have to buy tomatoes, and it’s heading into August soon. The aphids have discovered my brassicas. My only peaches obviously have residents at this point.
But, then, I make myself lunch from the garden:
Today, I had fingerling potatoes sauteed in butter and chives with a [...]


