One Writer Mom. One Teen Kid. One Brilliant Australian Shepherd. One Comical Border Collie Mix. One Dog in a Maine Coon Cat's Body. And Latest to the Party — One Cuddly Cavalier.
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Aug 2nd, 2008
– To cook up all this zucchini. This is one week’s worth. You’ve seen Monster Trucks. How about Monster Zucchinis? Actually, it’s just one of my seed zucchinis from which I’ll save seeds for next year’s crop. I’ve shared two of my favorite zucchini recipes here. This is another family favorite. ZUCCHINI FRITTERS 3 c. [...]
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Jul 9th, 2008
More than the economy is falling on hard times these days. A potentially huge problem is looming for gardeners and food growers everywhere. I just had a friend share with me that, in her area, zucchinis aren’t setting full fruits. So I checked my plants and , lo and behold, found some developmentally challenged zukes [...]
Posted in Dogs in General, My Garden / Recipes on Jul 4th, 2008
It’s been about a month since I planted my garden. Here’s how it started. Here’s what it looks like one month later. What a little sun and rain will do, when you start with good dirt… Without a wide-angle lens, I can’t get the whole thing in. But you get the idea. So far, we’ve [...]
Posted in .Cait and Me, .My Dogs and Me, Finnegan the Coon Cat, Life, My Garden / Recipes on Jun 22nd, 2008
The summer solstice is the day of maximum sunlight hours, bringing the longest day and shortest night of the year. I’d like to think we put it to maximum use. As usual, Graidy greeted me at 4:50 a.m.by jumping up on the bed and licking my face until I woke up. Next to me on [...]
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Jun 1st, 2008
With the cost of food skyrocketing, and the prices of organic produce off the charts, my garden experiment this year is to work toward growing enough food to feed my family for the year. Matron of Husbandry over at Throwback at Trapper Creek was the one who inspired me. This year, I’ve more than doubled [...]
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Apr 20th, 2008
It’s that time of year. The weather’s warming. The birds are nesting. The garden’s calling. Cold weather crops are well underway. Seedlings are put outside for a few hours a day to start hardening. When they all come back inside, there’s hardly a flat surface free. Time to seriously think about the benefits of a [...]
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Jan 23rd, 2008
Barbara Kingsolver brought the idea of locivore food growing and buying to the fore with her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. In it, she speaks to the value of focusing on eating locally instead of using fossil fuel to transport food long distances. While Kingsolver feels a moral and environmental obligation [...]
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Jan 9th, 2008
In my previous post, a reader had a question about seeds. My response was getting long, so I decided to share it here. I’m sure there are other would-be gardeners who also aren’t clear on the differences. Jo at Ecology of a Woman asked about three types of seeds — Heirloom, Hybrid, and GMO (genetically [...]
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Jan 7th, 2008
Oh the weather outside is frightful. It’s been hovering around -15 F in the mornings around here. And we’ve had quite a lot of snow already. Deep winter is upon us. But the fire is so delightful. I’m quite toasty, enjoying a nice hot cup of tea while leafing through my all-time favorite catalog that [...]
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Dec 17th, 2007
I ask you, what does it take to get a real English Scone in this country? Those hockey pucks that our stores and eateries have masquerading as scones are an insult. Okay, I know. I’m sounding like a bit of a snob. And while there isn’t another snobby bone in my body– when it comes [...]
Posted in .My Dogs and Me, My Garden / Recipes on Sep 17th, 2007
Thanks everyone for the well wishes; the writing is going well. I took a break from it this morning to finish putting my garden to bed, which gave me a chance to reflect on the past growing season. Each year, I try a few new seeds. This year I planted Hokkaido Stella Blue squash and [...]
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Aug 6th, 2007
Even if you don’t have your own garden, if your car’s been unlocked, you’ve probably been anonymously gifted with enough zucchini to feed an army. We gardeners like to share the wealth, as it were… I’m here to help save the day. I have two recipes that are guaranteed to have everyone in your family [...]
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Jul 30th, 2007
To Break Scape or Not to Break Scape? That is the question no more. When I first started growing garlic, I’d read that breaking the scapes (the flower stalks) off the garlic plants soon after they appeared would allow the bulbs to grow bigger (and so I’d always broken the scapes). Made sense, logically speaking; [...]
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Jul 12th, 2007
Posted in My Garden / Recipes on Jul 5th, 2007
I’ve been keeping a journal of my garden almost since I began. It’s a habit I picked up from the old woman who taught me. She drummed into my head, “Karen, if you want to see if what you’re doing works, you’ve got to keep a record! Without the ability to compare year to year, [...]
