Planet Veggie Garden

We’re growing the traditional green zucchini and another summer squash variety called ‘papaya’ – a cute yellow squash shaped like a papaya.
I was scanning the NYT health section and came across two delicious sounding zuchinni recipes that I would love to try:
Greek Zucchini and Herb Pie
Provencal Zucchini and Swiss Chard Tart
Let me know if [...]

Time to celebrate. We’re back on the road to productivity…It’s safe to go back into the garden!

A Piece of the Rainbow

After the rats ate all our chard, we began to go into withdrawal. We love chard!
Though it was the end of summer we went ahead and started some seeds in an undisclosed location to transplant [...]

It’s the first day of Fall and what better way to celebrate than to feature one typical fall vegetable.
When planting this spring and visiting various nurseries to buy starts – I thought it would be nice to have a pumpkin for the Fall. While searching for a pumpkin plant I saw a butternut squash and [...]

One day my sister, faced with an over abundance of zucchini decided to make a pie.
No, not a savory pie with eggs and cheese and herbs but, well…like an apple pie. With all it’s cinnamony homey goodness. Why not? There’s zucchini bread and muffins and cookies…
Her husband was so happy when he got home and [...]

No not a pink slip but a basket of tomatoes.
I picked a few of the Romas, Early Girls and my fav Celebrity . One more reason I like Celebrity is that is has fewer seeds than your average tomato (so, fewer seeds in the sauce). Only 4 pounds in all but I figured I’d put [...]

Curses! I’m all for sharing but when whole rows get nibbled on…it happened again last night despite our vermin proof netting. Some unidentified animal chewed through the netting and had a nice first course of a whole row of lettuce followed by some kale. Argh!
That’s it! The salad tongs have been thrown down onto the [...]

Zucchini – so Italian, yes? Well, the zucchini’s roots lie not in Europe but in South America.
Truth be told, wild squashes tended to be void of edible material and were very bitter, bleck. But, some industrious farmer saw potential and cultivated these wild barely edible gourds to the point that when Chris Columbus landed [...]

… a bunch of sprouted potatoes. Or at least a full tummy.

All this from a few sprouted potatoes

Today I harvested a basket full of potatoes. It’s so much fun to reach into the dirt and pull out these little jewels. All of these potatoes are offspring of potatoes I had in my pantry that started [...]