Wednesday, July 29, 2009

harvest time + ichiban

The last couple of weeks have thrown off a pretty consistent bounty from the garden...I've harvested peas, cucumbers, beans, and today, a Ronde de Nice squash and a Japanese eggplant. And because its the first eggplant, it gets dubbed with the ICHIBAN label...truly one of my favorite words on the planet!

Saturday, July 18, 2009

tour de france it ain't

Gorgeous ride around Titicus reservoir, past a bunch of horse farms with Jeff "El Jefe" Haber. Good stuff!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

july 4 flowers

The beginning of July has featured the first harvest from the garden, a salad bowl of lettuce, arugula, radishes & spinach with Elliot & Asegul. And to celebrate the holiday a bunch of the veggies have started to flower...i've got action on the peas and peppers, cucumbers and courgettes (zucchini, but altered for alliteration).

Thought I'd share some of the color...double click to enlarage.

kicking it lohud style



Big shout out to Bill Cary and the LoHud crew who are following the progress of my garden! Check out the article here

It was good to see that there are other local gardeners who seem as obsessive as I've become! I was definitely jealous to hear that one of the other gardeners has had to give her lettuce away...

The first harvest was a tasty salad made up of lettuce, arugula, spinach, radish leaves and radish. Made whole with a lovely rose' from Provence. They know their winemaking stuff down there!

So two questions for any gardeners who show up here: any tips for tomato plants that are showing little yellow and black spots on older leaves? and what do i do about the carrots that have been shaded by the squash plants? can they dig a little bit of shade, or are they done for?

One last request for LoHud: can you make the link to the blog live?