A Treat for the Eyes An aspect of growing your own vegetables that you may not have thought about is that they are very pleasing to the eye. Fresh veggies can be beautiful. The tomatoes, green beans and okra from my garden earlier this year were picture perfect… so I took pictures. Juliets and […]
Beautiful-to-Look-at Veggies
June 11th, 2012 6 Comments
Tags: fried green tomatoes · green beans with bacon and onions · horseradish · Juliets · Okra · radishes · Romas · Tomatoes
Best Use Ever!
June 6th, 2012 2 Comments
Overnight Guest My grandson, Malcolm, spent the night with me last week. I enjoy having him here, and we always manage to fill the time with a little together stuff. Not long ago, he painted a birdhouse he’d built in scouts. It was a gift for his great-grandmother. We sat at my table, and my […]
Tags: Raised Garden
Jalapeno, Hallelujah!
June 3rd, 2012 2 Comments
October to May Was Good My current garden was planted at the beginning of March. I planted okra, green beans, tomatoes and acorn squash. In addition, I still had Juliets and Roma tomatoes, basil and cilantro from the October planting. Things went well for two months. THEN… at the beginning of May, a storm of […]
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