Published on June 2, 2010 9:50 pm.
Filed under: Keeping house
Monday’s lunch came from the garden.
We planted potatoes by setting a few old potatoes with lots of eyes on the ground and dumping buckets of dirt over them. Potato plants grew and then died back. I went into the back yard with my gardening fork and lifted these out of one of the dirt mounds. I think there are still twice as many left in the ground. I figure they’ll keep well there, and if they sprout more eyes they will already be in the right place.
These artichokes grew along the side of the house. I served them with lemon juice from a neighbor’s lemons and my favorite California olive oil from Beyond the Olive. I’ve never tasted artichokes this fresh before, and they were so tender and flavorful that they almost didn’t need a sauce.
Published on May 12, 2010 3:27 pm.
Filed under: Eating and drinking, Garden
Published on May 9, 2010 10:03 pm.
Filed under: Miscellaneous Tags: Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve
Published on May 8, 2010 10:56 pm.
Filed under: Miscellaneous Tags: Arlington Garden
Published on May 5, 2010 2:31 pm.
Filed under: Garden Tags: California native plants
I’ve been sewing bright colored seam binding around the edges of my cleaning rags, which are mostly retired washcloths and squares of retired towels.
I like the way they look when they’re hanging on the clothes line. They used to have ragged edges, and they would fray in the washer and dryer or look embarrassingly messy drying on the line in the back yard. These look pretty. And if they get mixed up with the regular laundry, it’s easy to keep retired washcloth cleaning rags from being confused with washcloths in good standing.
Published on May 5, 2010 2:19 pm.
Filed under: Keeping house
Published on May 5, 2010 1:49 pm.
Filed under: Garden
Published on May 4, 2010 9:06 am.
Filed under: Garden
Published on May 3, 2010 10:41 pm.
Filed under: Garden
Your toes look cold.
Did you love The One Straw Revolution?
We are huge Fukuoka fans in this household. He has greatly influenced us, from the way we garden to the way we lead our lives.
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I liked it very much. I tore through it and gobbled it up. I need to read it again more slowly.
I need to read it again too. We have just bought ourselves another copy to lend out to people. It makes more sense to thrust a book at people, instead of a piece of paper with the dewey decimal number on it.
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