Sorry to be gone so long from this blog, but here’s the garden for this year as of July 10, 2009. Enjoy!
Archive for the ‘vegetables’ Category
The garden this year
Posted in flowers, garden, vegetables, tagged garden, homegrown vegetables, locavore, organic garden, square foot garden, vegetable garden on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Plant-based diet is safer, more effective than drugs
Posted in food, vegetables, tagged astrazeneca, big pharma, crestor, crestor research, john mcdougall, plant based diet, prescription drugs, prevent heart attack, prevent stroke, statin side effects on November 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Big news from Big Pharma yesterday that statin drugs given to healthy people reduce the likelihood of heart attack or stroke by 50%!!! Amazing!!! A medical miracle!!! Or maybe not….
Dr. John McDougall once again debunks the “research” on this one. Funded by AstraZeneca, maker of Crestor, and written by Dr. Paul M. Ridker, patent-holder of [...]
Looking back on the garden
Posted in garden, vegetables, tagged garden, organic gardening, self-sufficiency, squash bug, vegetable garden, voles on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.” –Thomas Cooper
Summer has come and gone. Our first attempt at organic veggie gardening went well in spite of us this year! In July, we had the most lush vegetable garden you can imagine…but life and the squash bug caught up with us [...]
The garden matures
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged gardening, organic gardening, raised beds, square foot gardens, squash bugs, tomatoes, vegetable garden on August 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Our first summer of vegetable gardening has been a rewarding experience for Chuck and me. It’s sort of like being first time parents…you start out reading every book you can get your hands on…you’re a little tense and nervous about doing the wrong thing…and then finally you put up the books and follow your [...]
Home gardens are growing!
Posted in do-it-ourselves, environment, food, garden, vegetables, tagged backyard gardens, food and economy, grow food to save money, grow your own food, home gardens, new york times, urban gardens on August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Washington Post has a great article about the increase in the number of backyard gardeners in the US. Seems that seed sales have gone up dramatically as Americans plant and grow their own food. Reasons for the increase: the economy, concerns about where food comes from, concerns about food quality, and [...]
Today’s garden harvest is tonight’s dinner
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged carrots, corn, eating from the garden, from garden to table, garden harvest, summer harvest, tomatoes, trionfo violetto beans on July 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today we harvested tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, beans, and parsley from the garden. Add the corn from the Nobles’ garden, along with tomatoes, snap beans, and peaches from the Haskins’ farm, and we had a veritable feast laid out before us. Here’s what we finally decided on for dinner:
Trionfo violetto beans. They grow [...]
Garden of Eden July 18, 2008
Posted in garden, vegetables, tagged bean teepees, cantaloupe slings, cucumbers, eggplant, Garden of Eden, organic gardening, raised beds, sugar babies, tomatoes on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chuck and I welcome you to a guided tour of our vegetable garden! Come on in and we’ll show you around!
more about “Garden of Eden July 18, 2008“, posted with vodpod
Expanding the garden subsistence style
Posted in food, garden, simple things, vegetables, tagged double digging, garden, hand-tilling, handturning, new garden plot, preparing the soil, soil, subsistence farming on June 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
You may have read about the problem we had with our raised beds — the mulch underneath the beds was holding water like a sponge making the beds too wet. We fixed that problem as much as we can, but decided to plant more crops around the perimeter of the garden. Then, we [...]
Square foot gardens sing the blues
Posted in garden, vegetables, tagged drainage problems, garden problems, mulch, raised beds, square foot garden, square foot gardening on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You’d never guess by looking at our cheery herb garden that only a few feet away…our pretty square foot gardens are singing the blues! We finally figured out what went wrong when we pulled the mulch away from the boxes. And like most problems in life it was self-inflicted…not by the vegetables…but [...]
“I’m too tired to go to the grocery” salad
Posted in food, vegetables, tagged recipe, roasted veggies, salad, vegetarian recipe on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They say, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” She’s probably also the mother of a lot of last minute dinners! I needed to take a salad to church, but it was late and I was too tired to run to the grocery. I had lettuce from our garden, but was missing [...]
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