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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*Yes, I know it’s not the year 2000. It’s always called that. I don’t even think it started in 2000. Portlanders, eh?
This weekend was the annual pig roast that my neighbors throw. It is always quite an event and has come to mean that we’re in the peak of summer. This year, I supplied buckets [...]
It’s always surprising how we go from that “is anything ever going to grow around here?” thing to “good god, more peas?!” The garden’s starting cranking out food, and we’re already chest-deep in potatoes, peas, strawberries (and more strawberries), broccoli, lettuce, carrots, and onions. Not, you know, literally chest deep. That’d be crazy.
A veritable rainbow [...]
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If you’re a food garden dork, like myself, you may have run into this weird situation wherein you cook up a bunch of potatoes, and for some reason, some of them don’t… cook. They get hot, they turn brown, but they stay crunchy and taste either bad or like nothingness.
This is, I just learned today [...]
can’t blog much… too hot… 100 degrees… global warming and/or mid-summer…
The poor chickens look like fish on dry land with their mouths hanging open panting.
Everything’s hanging like wet rags.
The sweat’s running down my forehead as fast as I can wipe it off.
Hot is what I’m saying.
Wilty Broccoli
Field of Potatoes with Blues in the Front
Walla Walla [...]
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