Category: Gardening

August 6, 2007

One of our shortcuts to town goes right by Elijah’s, and we stopped in to give Kurt a pickle- they just came out of the crock and I must say I nailed them; they’re just like Grandpa made- and Kurt gave us some beautiful chicken-of-the-woods (yellow and orange) and chanterelles. With the guanciale ready for action, I grabbed some worthy companions from the garden and went to work turning all of it into a heavenly…

July 9, 2007

The view yesterday The many squash volunteers from the compost Under the zucchini canopy Lettuces still going strong Beans peaking

May 13, 2007

Here, finally planted (except for two beds of hot-weather things) is the garden. In a couple of weeks we’ll be getting the first mesclun, and after that many other things. It was a ton of work, but now that the beds are done they should be pretty easy to prepare in subsequent springs.