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Monthly Archives: July 2015
Cherry pie
With sour cherries picked last month and froze, I made a pie and shared it with friends who made perfect whipped cream. A cool treat on a hot summer night.
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In Memoriam: Pamela Haley
My dear friend Pam Haley died peacefully on 21 July. Pam was a very caring person whose abiding generosity, good humor and natural tenderness embraced people, animals and gardens. May she now dwell in the Garden of Delight. Pour yourself a … Continue reading
“Garlic is as good as ten mothers”
I harvested my garlic crop yesterday. Lots of beautiful heads now cure in my kitchen. I harvest the garlic when 4-5 of the leaves have browned but the paper that surrounds the head of cloves is still fully intact. This means … Continue reading
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Pesto
The basil is ready for eating, for making pestos. Just perfect.
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Fruits galore
I go away for a week and come back to a garden bursting with produce. Six cups plus of raspberries. Beets and carrots for roasting. Three colors of fillet green beans. A green pepper, the first tomatoes, the first eggplant, … Continue reading
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Tarragon terrific
This year, the French tarragon — thriving, delicately flavorful and beautiful, is having a terrific year. For reasons I don’t fully comprehend, the thyme did not survive last winter’s bitter cold but the tarragon did. (Thyme and tarragon are perennial herbs which I … Continue reading
This year’s garlic
This year, the garlic is slow to mature and be harvested. Usually I’m harvesting my garlic around the 4th of July but this year it’s not ripe yet for harvest and curing. Perhaps it’s the long, cool spring we’ve had. … Continue reading
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What’s up and coming
Cucumbers are flowering and growing wildly up the trellis. Soon there will be many varieties of cucumbers to relish. Bush beans (here) and pole beans are flowering. Soon there will be many fillet beans to … Continue reading
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Summer fruits, part four: more berries
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