http://growingappetite.com Grow it. Eat it. Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:08:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is something satisfying about harvesting in winter. Like I've succeeding in feeding myself year round. With the abundance of seed catalogs arriving and my desire to get the garden started its nice to still be eating from last years plantings. I pulled more carrots today, they have a nice sweetness ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/114 The hardest part about planting garlic is picking a place to put in next years garlic, oh and also finding a day that its not pouring down rain and not too cold that you can stand to be outside planting. Garlic is a bulb and is planted in the fall. ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/113 There was an initial fear when planting the snack jack pumpkins that they would take up far to much room and by the sounds of it I would have plenty of little pumpkins to make into soup or pie or ravioli or whatever my little pumpkin heart desired. I found a ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/112 Today I planted some fall vegetables. All except the carrots are the same spring variety's I planted earlier this year. I did plant two types of spinach earlier in the year but today I just went for the 45 day variety. Hoping to get it in and ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/111 This is a yummy, yet challenging point of the gardening season. Challenging because I can only eat so much...:) There is more produce then one can eat alone. Besides even the freshest of beans or in my case yellow squash, there comes a time when you have just eaten so ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/110 While outside in the garden for even more weeding today I noticed the first Snack Jack pumpkin. These are the same ones I didn't know how I would fit them in earlier this year. I did and here is a picture of the very first one. It's about the size of ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/108 The weather has been perfect!!! Not for me, but for the garden. Its been quite rainy and humid but bright, not dark and rainy. A few days away and look at all the butterstick squash I found last night when I went to pull lettuce for a salad. Needless to say, ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/107 So the peas are done for the first half of the season. The pea pods now over sized and no longer sweet. I pulled the plants today, shelling the rest of the peas right in the garden. This just makes it easier to get the shells into the compost. The ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/105 If you can remember to take pictures at regular intervals its fun to watch the progression of the garden. I took the first two on June 4th when the garden was in. The rest I took today, July 4th. I have put a note in my calendar to take pictures on ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/104 Some of the best fruits of my labor is the fruit itself. Today there were fresh raspberries and blueberries for breakfast. There is a second round of strawberries ripening and the plums are getting bigger. There will be no nectarines or peaches this year but I will spray for the peach leaf curl ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/103