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.
