What would you do with a plethora of peppers? We’re dehydrating a bunch just so they won’t go bad, but there are plenty more on the plant. They are in the cayenne family and VERY spicy.
Category: Wellness
Day 25
Harvest time! (The ones on the bottom left are yellow and purple carrots.)
Root Veggies!
Potato recipes anyone? We have lots of red potatoes and yukon gold potatoes.
Buying (and Storing) Meat in Bulk
About twice a year, we head out to buy the majority of our meat for the next 5 or so months. I’d tell you where but we really don’t go there for the deal as much as the smorgasbord afterwards. (And they don’t look at your weird when you ask for 60 pounds of chicken). ...
Garden Tour
The strawberries this year have been amazing. The hotter weather lately has made them smaller but no less sweet. We’re trying onions again this year. Last year we planted too late and too deep. This year they look much better. We’re even seeing some bulbing! Potatoes were also anti-climatic last year. We’re giving another go...
Rabbit-proof Peas
Snap peas are one of my favorite early spring veggies. One year we were enjoying fresh peas every day until one day we ventured out and all of our 8 foot plants were dead. It turns out a rabbit had the munchies and snacked on the bottom three inches of our pea plants effectively killing the rest of them....
View from the Kitchen Window
With all the sunshine today, we took the opportunity to build 2 more raised beds, prune the grapes, thin the garlic (it came back from last year), transplant the everbearing strawberries, and plant a bed of onions.
Loofas are not sea sponges
Who knew? In case you are not at all familiar with loofas, they look like tubes of shredded wheat and are often sold as bath sponges right next to the nylon poofy things. Pretty much everyone we told this year that we were growing loofas, said, “Mmm…and I always thought they came from the sea.” ...