Harvesting A Truckload Of Garlic. Plus A Great Garlic Recipe.
What happens when a bunch of old Italians get their hands on some land to garden? Garlic happens. Lots of it. We snuck off to my parent’s cottage for a little family time this week. It happened to coincide with garlic harvesting time. The whole family pitched in and hauled about 1000 plants out of […]
Chili Pepper Haul
This is my entire chili pepper haul for the year. Two big bowls. That’s a lot of heat. I had been leaving them on the plants as long as possible, letting them grow while playing chicken with the frost. I heard from my dad the other night that I had to bring them in. My […]
We Have Lemons We Have Lemons!
11 ½ of them to be exact. The half lemon is because one of them is brown on one side but I can’t bring myself to throw it out. I have raised it since it was a wee little thing. These are all my lemons. Harvested from my own lemon plant. This is very exciting. […]
Fall Harvest
Although I am blessed with a large backyard, I don’t really have many open sunny areas where I can grow vegetables. I compensate a little by growing what I can in pots on the deck and around the yard. This year, trying to expand my efforts, I created a new area for about 8 large […]
