Here’s a simple idea for those potatoes and garlic scapes you’re getting in the weekly basket or at Happy Tides. Make some garlic scape pesto with the scapes. (see recipe in one of the previous posts) Cook the potatoes and toss them in a bowl with a little butter, chop up some of the dill [. . .]
pretty pink peonies
The peony plants that I planted 3 years ago flowered enthusiastically this year! They really made me wait and finally my patience has been rewarded with amazing blooms to use in my arrangements. I made this one yesterday for an island business. What a treat! a variety of pink peonies, hydrangea branches with young flowers, [. . .]
this week’s basket
In the garden harvest basket this week:salad greens: peashoots with beautiful pink and purple pea shoot flowers and other edible flowers: nasturtiums and calendula petals…..sunflower shoots and/or purple radish shootsnew potatoesgarlic scapesbaby dill and chives If you’re receiving the baskets at your doorstep please do remember to let me know if you’d like to switch [. . .]
the new potatoes are ready for harvesting!
I love growing potatoes in pots. I’ve already posted once about this and here I go again. I first tried it a few years ago and for the last couple of years, I’ve experimented with many different ideas, constantly learning how to make it work better. I think potatoes are such a gratifying crop to [. . .]
garlic scapes!
Summer must be here because the scapes are ready for picking. On a garlic plant the scape is the flower stalk that the plant develops in early June. Most garlic growers remove the scape when it starts to curl because they believe that when it’s removed the energy of the plant will be directed into [. . .]
spring greens
I’ve been so busy with spring garden work that I haven’t been here for quite a while. Lots of growing and harvesting of spring greens going on in Christina’s Garden these days! Thanks so much to everyone for appreciating all my efforts…I’m so happy to know you’re all enjoying the spring salad greens I’m producing. [. . .]