BETTER FOOD AND GARDENS
Eating our way through our best garden ever!
June, 2010
CROOK NECKED PUMPKIN
This giant squash is already huge on June 3rd and by the end of the month had quadrupled in size. The peppers, tomatoes, beets, potatoes, and carrots are also having a banner year.
SPUD KING
We love spuds and Bob has proven himself to be the king of potatoes with this year's crop of tasty fingerlings. Click on the photo for a better look at Bob, the happy potato farmer.
MIGHTY RED THUMBS
We received seventeen pounds of Red Thumb fingerlings n return for our initial investment of only one pound of seed potatoes and used them in salad, soup and boiled with chives. Read about our love affair with the mighty potato on our blog: SPUD LOVE
CARROTS AND YEAST
Bob's carrots are no slouches either. They are as tasty as they are beautiful. Another carrot bed awaits harvest behind the bowl.
Adding another link to our sustainability chain, Bob has begun cultivating beer brewing yeast. After bottling, a layer of yeast is left behind on the bottom of the fermenter. Rather than compost it, Bob has begun transferring the yeast to a smaller bottle and letting it grow.
ANATOMY OF A MEAL
Camille put together a delicious squash sauté to go with freshly made pesto. She used garlic from Bob's garden and patty pan squash and tomatoes from our two CSA's. Bob brought some coconut oil home which lent a wonderful Caribbean flavor to the meal.
CORNER GARDEN
We decided to pretty up the garden in the corner of our property using mondo grass from Jill and Andy's gardens. To give the garden dimension, we added irises which we harvested from our own flower beds. The before picture, on the left was taken in April. We pulled all the weeds, added dirt and plugged in our starts for the finished product on the right. In a year or so, the grass will fill in, creating a nice, green low maintenance garden.
STAGING
The mondo grass and irises await their new home while a tiny frog prepares to exit stage right.
COOL OF THE DAY
We made sure to get outside early to work on this project. The temperatures during most of the month of June were in the mid to high 90's.
Little by little, we are reclaiming the beautiful beds former owners installed on our property. We love how nice our neighbor's yard looks and thought it would be a nice gesture to put some energy into this nice little corner garden.
