My artichokes are at their prime, but I can’t pick them. Same with the lettuce, the tomatoes and the cucumbers. Hosting a garden tour in the middle of the summer is pure torture. It’s not that I aim for perfection, an impossible feat when it comes to a vegetable garden, but I would like it […]
Archives for July 2011
Savory Summer Recipes
The best part of growing a kitchen garden is that you don’t have to stop at the supermarket on your way home from work. Instead, you can pick up your harvest basket and pluck lettuce and tomatoes on your way into the house. There is nothing more exciting than harvesting those first ripe tomatoes, eggplants, […]
Garden Smart: a mid-summer plan
It’s mid summer, and time to kick back and enjoy the garden. But the truth is that I am still hunched over filling weed buckets, clipping spent blossoms and flicking Japanese beetles into jars of soapy water (making beetle juice?). And I discovered a half price sale at my favorite garden center, and decided to […]