It’s starting to get into the 30s in the mornings here in central New Mexico, so I went out this afternoon and took everything off that was remotely ready. The tomatoes will ripen in a bowl on the counter. The metal bowl has herbs: basil, mint and lemon balm. We planted a small fall garden [...]
This is the first year we have planted heirloom tomatoes. This variety is yellow and delicious! Heirloom tomatoes are from seeds that are passed down from generation to generation, rather than lab created hybrid seeds. Nature is truly amazing in all its diversity. I have been serving our garden tomatoes as a side dish at [...]
(I love deconstructed salads. Actually, I love using the word “deconstructed” to describe food. It seems so snotty, but it just means separating food instead of mixing it up.) Our tomatoes are finally ripening, so I picked up some mozzarella and grabbed some basil from the garden and we have our favorite summertime salad. Mr. [...]
I planted a couple of sunflower seeds in each vegetable box. They are very tall and started to flower this week. The bees are going crazy for the sunflowers. We’ve had such a wonderful experience watching insects of all types enjoy the garden. Have a sunny day! This post has been linked up to An Oregon [...]
On Sunday we harvested one Patio tomato, a handful of purple beans, two lemon cucumbers, two eggplant, a summer squash, jalapeños, an Anaheim chile and lots of basil. Which I promptly turned into several little containers of pesto. It is so nice to get food from the garden. It doesn’t fulfill all our produce needs, [...]
We got our first big bowl of food out of the garden this week! Woohoo! Since it is a lot of effort to keep up the garden, we make sure not to waste anything we grow. We harvested several eggplant, two zucchini, one summer squash, a cucumber, purple beans and two small tomatoes (not shown). [...]
Here is our garden on Sunday afternoon, July 22. Here is the garden in mid-June. I love how the garden explodes in just a few weeks. We’ve harvested lots of eggplant and chiles. But now we are getting summer squash and zucchini. We bought two varieties of beans (pole and bush) and they are both [...]
We have our first harvest of the season! The next three months we will enjoy the fresh food on a daily basis. While looking at our garden jungle… we found this little guy. He is just adorable. Although he is part of the harvest, we do not plan to eat him. We do, however, plan [...]
We finally took the expensive leap and had a professional come in and trim our large Chinese Elm trees. Generally, we try to do our own home repair and yard work, but at 25 feet tall, it was going to cost us more in time and money to get the proper instruments than to call [...]
We planted the garden in mid-May and it is looking good! The seeds have all turned into little plants and the plants we purchased are growing quickly. One of the big upgrades to the garden is the drip irrigation system. Last year when we went out of town, we set up a timer and a [...]