We came back from two weeks away and we found...
Garden gone wild! Zucchini the size of my thigh!
Over a dozen eggs!
Our house sitter watered everything and fed the chickens but doesn't appear to have eaten much.
Showing posts with label ground cherries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ground cherries. Show all posts
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Daily Harvest
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We finally have swiss chard that's not getting the weird wilty-yellow disease! I hope that doesn't jinx it...
We finally have swiss chard that's not getting the weird wilty-yellow disease! I hope that doesn't jinx it...
Monday, October 26, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Daily Dinner
Gazpacho from our tomatoes and cucumbers.
Noodles from the chicken's eggs, with herbs.
Quinoa not from our garden with ground cherry chutney.
It's nice to be home!
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Baby Time!
The ladybugs in love, in an earlier post, has led to an explosion of baby ladybugs all over the garden!
In this photo of a a ground cherry seedling I can spot six baby ladybugs!
Are there more?
I feel like every leaf I turn over in the cucumber patch reveals more.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Daily Dinner
My childhood friend, Kathy came to stay with us for long weekend. We spent the three days celebrating and playing.
Saturday night we made noodles (one egg from our chickens.) with fava beans, peas, turnips and tons of herbs on top.
We also ate more venison, traded from Bob, slow cooked in white wine with herbs, with ground cherry chutney on the side.
I think that ground cherries are my favorite kind of chutney.
Kim brought salad and flowers from her garden. Some of the flowers were for the table, and some were for the salad! Nasturtium flowers are so bright and spicy, and a lovely old standard in salad, but she also added bachelor buttons, which I had never eaten before!
This is the ground cherry chutney. Possibly the best food ever.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Daily Harvest
I am so excited to be eating raspberries!This is the first harvest this year of ground cherries!
The love in a mist is all starting to bloom around the edges of the yard. It is so beautiful! It doesn't seem to attract bees, but it does make me think of the dreamy water color illustrations of the children's book Carrie Hepple's Garden. The children sneak into a reclusive neighbor's garden at night and the garden is mesmerizingly beautiful but also unknown and threatening. I think that Carrie Hepple grew love in a mist.
It also makes me think of the story my friend tells of going to the garden store with her house mate and trying to decide which flowers to buy. She couldn't figure out why he rejected her suggestion of love in a mist until it came out later that he had understood her to be saying "love enemas."
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