brad’s atomic grape

The most intriguing tomato I have grown is Brad’s Atomic Grape tomato. Two years ago was the first try, and I lost all the tomatoes I had started from seed. Last year I had better results with my “from seed” efforts, and I got four sturdy healthy plants. Then we had long, dry periods of […]

pico adjacent

I made fresh pico de gallo, with the addition of tomatillo, for taco (really nacho) dinner tonight. Fresh San Marzano tomatoes from the garden. Fresh tomatillo, onion, and cilantro from our latest Imperfect Foods delivery. Jalapeno from the store, garlic from the fridge… Very tasty!

pepperpaloosa, pt. 3

As it turns out, two Thai pepper plants were wholly unnecessary…

pepperpalooza 2.0

Round two of pepperpalooza! Just in time for the first round to go from dehydrator to processor. So many green still on the plants. These yeilds are from two hot paper lanterns, two Thai peppers, and five habaneros…

what’s the ‘mater?

So… we had this volunteer tomato plant, random in the yard, that I transplanted into the second tomato bed. The plant grew massive, sporting tiny little fruit that took forever to grow. I found one with color today. First one off the plant in the second week of August. It’s that dimpled yellow one above… […]

pepperpalooza

…has arrived! Only a few types of hot peppers made it into the ground this summer, but those that did are big and bushy, and full of fruit!

one potato, two potato…

Our midsummer potato experiment is going along. Still no idea if we’ll have a crop this fall, we will see. Eight sprouting starters planted, four plants sprouting so far.

today in the garden

Even in the heat, I got a small amount of work done this past weekend. The basil plants have spent months in their little plastic grow pots. They are leggy and sad, but I got most of them planted on Sunday. Hopefully, they will recover and produce for the rest of summer. The delay was […]

garden miscellany

Various things in the garden:

terra cotta

Say ‘Hello’ to Terra Cotta, one of the new tomato varieties in our garden: A green cap fades into beautiful orange skin. The meat is a marbled mix of the two colors. The taste is high in acid but more berry-like in its sweetness.