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Where has the time gone? October 25th?! I can’t believe how fast this month is flying by.
It started for me with some good, old-fashioned, back-breaking labour. I stuck my shovel in the dirt a record number of times to dig up and divide (and conquer!) the hundreds of perennials I grow in my front yard for Emerging Hope. I estimate that there were at 400-500 plants that we dug up that will be potted and sold to help the charity.
All that hard work deserved some reward so I hopped on a plane with a last minute ticket to join some girlfriends for a week long siesta in Cabso San Lucas. A beautiful place with some fascinating flora to look at (but don’t touch the cacti - youch!)
With brown skin and a pedicure, I arrived back home to trade in my flip flops and sundresses for boots and sweaters…and of course to see what’s been happening out in the garden.
There were a lot of yummy veggies that needed harvesting…
And some that the blight took (blech!)…
And many that got chopped up and thrown in a pot with a whole bunch of garlic and herbs…
The roasted flavours permeating the house and my belly was a delightful contrast to the daily fish tacos, guacamole and Coronitas of the previous week. Each was equally wonderful though, making this a truly fabulous month so far.
October 25 2010 | Growing Food and Harvest and Photography | 6 Comments »
September 28 2010 | Photography | 2 Comments »
Today I went to Tomato Fest at the Trout Lake Farmer’s Market to buy my heirloom tomato ‘seeds’ for next year. The vendors sell tomatoes, not tomato seeds in packets, but really, a tomato is just a delicious and colourful packet filled with of lots and lots of seeds, right? And heirlooms have grown true seed to fruit year after year, so what better way to decide what tomatoes you want in your garden the next year: buy some heirlooms tomatoes, scoop out the seeds, and chow down. If it’s a good tomato – grow more! If it sucks, then just toss the seeds in the compost.
These are the ones I’ll be testing and saving over the next few days to see which will join my most favourite of all heirlooms (some of those favs snuck into the photo even though they came from my garden: Green Zebra, Sweetheart Grape and Siletz). All this for $8.50. Hell yeah!
It seems crazy to BUY more tomatoes when this is the giant bowl I am trying to cope with today from my home garden (this is a really, really big bowl):
Ah, well, I’m sure I’ll find SOMETHING to do with them all….om nom nom nom nom..
September 11 2010 | Growing Food and Harvest and Photography and Vancouver | 20 Comments »
September 08 2010 | Photography | 4 Comments »
If it’s sunny and you have a bunch of extra herbs, why not make sun tea? Simply snip and wash mint, lemon balm, or chamomile and pack loosely in a jar. Fill with water and leave in the sun for the day. I also use some of the yummy teas I usually sip in the winter like white tea with mint, fennel, ginger, and my all time fav chocolate mint!
August 19 2010 | Growing Food and Photography and Recipes | 4 Comments »
Here are the lovlies blooming in my garden this month. Hover over the thumbnail to see the name or click on the thumbnail for a larger picture. Anyone able to help me name the hydrangeas? Extra points for identifying the bright red bloom.
August 15 2010 | Flowers and Gardening and Photography | 13 Comments »
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