Archive for the 'Produce' Category

A Field of Daisies and a Blackout

Friday, July 17th, 2009

A few weeks ago I noticed that some daisies were emerging on the small hillside behind our house.  I was both surprised and relieved to see them appear.  Last Fall, B.J., a fellow member of my church mentioned that he was digging up a bunch of his daisies to make room for a water feature [...]

Bringing in the Sheaves… Freezing Homegrown Spinach

Monday, June 8th, 2009

My spinach has been growing gangbusters.

Fearing that the warmer weather might cause my spinach crop to bolt…

…like my arugula did.
I decided I better go ahead and harvest most of it and see if I could figure out how to ‘put it up’.

I collected enough spinach to fill a tall kitchen trash bag.

I set the bag [...]

My First Salad!

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I am calling this one Garden Greens with Blue Bowl.
 
 
 
 
 

And this one… Garden Greens, Blue Bowl, Show Cat #1.
 
 
 
 
 

Green, Blue, Scissors.
 
 
 
 
 

I snipped the tender lettuce, the crinkly spinach, and a mesclun mix that is primarily dominated by a robust arugula, brought them in the house and covered them in cold water to get rid of [...]