Entries from Ann-alog: a pixel remix tagged with 'gardening'
Winter salad from the potager
Salad greens: spinach, Bull's Blood beet greens, staghorn, mache I had no idea whether winter gardening would actually work in Utah when I planted out these seedlings last fall. On February 28, salad was on the menu, all from...
Garden greens and a mahogany turkey
Winter lettuce Remember these? Now we call them dinner. The great winter gardening experiment continues to amuse and feed me. Before the first snow in mid-October, I covered the lettuce, tatsoi and pak choi bed with a low tunnel...
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
First snow of the season I gathered tomatoes, cucumbers, basil and dill before the impending storm this weekend. A freakishly early storm, too early to say good-bye to the summer crops. A marigold is peeking out from under a...
Winter Greens
Seedlings for the winter garden I blogged in mid-July about my plans to implement the winter garden ideas in Eliot Coleman's Four-Season Harvest. In past years, by the middle of September, my tomatoes were sprawled on the ground, the...
Leggnet in the House
Rich Legg and model Michelle in the Palace Potager Rich Legg, aka Leggnet and his wife and uber-model Michelle came over last week to use the garden for new images for Rich's stock portfolio. It was a bit of...
What to do with a Giant Zucchini
Zucchini "pasta" with pesto I heard this joke when I first moved to Utah: why do you have to lock your car when you go to church in the summertime? Because if you don't, your neighbors will fill it...
Afternoon Snack
Sun Sugar Cherry Tomato These are the tastiest cherry tomato I've grown. I believe they are the Sun Sugar variety, although I didn't write it down in my garden notes. Not too many of these tomato treats make it...
A word or two about amaranath
Amaranth plant in full flower You start a conversation you can't even finish it. You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything. When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed. Say something once, why say it...
The Palace Potager
Nasturium flowers, leaves and pods are tasty in salads Maybe I read too many Little House on the Prairie books as a girl, but I have discovered that I have surprising affinity toward the agrarian self-sufficiency virtues of Jeffersonian...
When weeds are food
Three macro shots of a tulip in my backyard I have been thinking of digging up all of my spring flowers and replacing them with edibles, even though they are such fun to photograph in the "wild" of my...
