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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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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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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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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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 [...]

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