Mizuna
The lovely SJ asked what mizuna is. We use it as a salad green, similar to rocket, because of its strong peppery taste. I think it’s a brassica and it’s Japanese. It’s fairly easy to grow. We have it growing with our tomatoes. We’ve got three big bushes of the stuff, but because of its […]
Fangorn garden salad
I’m totally excited to share about the salad that we grew in our garden. I eat salad all the time. To prevent it from getting boring, we add lots of different ingredients. This salad is different because it has a real ‘bite!’ it’s quite tangy/spicey. Fangorn Garden Salad Cos lettuce Butter lettuce Mizuna Vietnamese mint […]
Plaiting Garlic!
They say that it’s a good idea to plant garlic on the winter solstice and harvest it on the summer solstice, and we pretty much did that this year (albeit a few weeks late on the summer end). I remember planting out 365 garlic cloves with Monte way back in June. We planted different varieties, […]
Zucchini fritters
It’s that time of year again! We are getting zucchinis daily. We have four plants and they are thriving! We are also growing lettuce, silverbeet, potatoes, onions, strawberries, garlic, pumpkins, beans, carrots, tomatoes and cucumbers, but the zucchinis are doing the best. We also have a new BBQ that is sitting on our new deck. […]
Excitement
I write with great excitement. I am about 1200 words away from finishing my 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo. I have written 48,767 words this month. Today, I have written just under 3500 words (not including this post), and I have spent less than an hour writing at my computer. I have to make the time […]
More healthy snacking…
If it’s there, kids will eat it, right? If they grow it, they’ll eat it, right? In our quest to provide tempting healthy snacking treats for our children, snow peas are all the rage. If you know how sweet food is, when picked straight from the tree/vine/bush/etc, then it will come as no surprise to […]
Garden glories
This is the dream. After living in the cabin for over two years – constantly reminded that we had no electricity save that which was powered by the sunlight and a dab of wind – I missed many things. Space, for one. Garden, another. For the first time in a while now I am completely […]
Zucchini chutney
We are inundated with zucchinis. We have four plants and their yield is very high. We are growing three varieties: yellow, pale green and crook neck. I love zucchinis. We eat them raw, as a grated accompaniment to any meal. Cabbage can be replaced with zucchinis for coleslaw too. We eat the new ones, sliced, […]
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