July 6, 2011

Hot and sunny= things to eat!

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…it seems as though we’ve shaken that late spring/early summer weather pattern which brought us grey skies and lots of rain. In response to the recent hot and dry weather, our plants have started producing! We were able to collect enough peas and beans to compliment our last two dinners and our tomatoes are starting to blossom, the eggplant has doubled in size and our second planting of radishes has already sprouted. Now, if we keep up with the watering we should have a couple of choices in regards to our dinner plans- all right from our backyard!

                                   -Josh

 

 

June 16, 2011

First 2011 “harvest”.

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    Things have been off to a slow start this Spring in regards to our backyard vegetables. The cloudy and cool weather has been hampering our early season growing- our peas and radishes were supposed to be ready a few weeks ago. We did manage to gather enough to supplement last nights meal, however. The radishes were nice and crisp with a little spice to them. They were a little on the small side, but were a welcome addition to our salad. The peas were terrific, sautéed in a little butter which went well with their sweetness. Now all we need is a little sun to move the rest of our veggies along!

                                                -Josh

 

September 1, 2010

Give peas a second chance.

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With this year’s growing season starting so early and seemingly continuing on, we decided to give growing peas a second shot. Our first go-round didn’t work out so well- we turned a tomato cage upside down to use as a trellis and the peas never really grew on it like I expected. Due to the demise of our zucchini, a spot opened up in one of our boxes. I grabbed some downed branches from the wooded area down the street and built a support to hang some twine that the peas can grow up…they just broke ground last week and will be reaching the twine any day now…hopefully we’ll have better results!

                              -Josh

 

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