Alright, so I’ve reviewed all my tomatoes and all my root vegetables for the year. And yet there are STILL too many veggies left for one more post. I’ll start with the remaining members of the nightshade family, then move on to cucurbits. Tomorrow I’ll finish up with brassicas and herbs. Señorita Jalapeño Peppers: All [...]
Posts Tagged ‘summer squash’
Summer Round-Up: Nightshades and Cucurbits
Posted in Gardening, tagged cayennes, eggplants, garden plans, mexican sour gherkins, peppers, squash, summer squash, zucchini on August 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sunday Photos: Garden Veggies Meet the Grill
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged eggplant, grilling, harvest, photos, summer squash, vegetables, zucchini on July 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In the last week I harvested a zucchini, a small eggplant, a crookneck squash, and some peppers. All met the same fate: a screaming hot cast iron grill pan. I didn’t want the flavor of these gems to get lost by mixing them with other ingredients or adding lots of spices. Using only oil, salt, [...]
Sunday Photos: Workday in the Garden
Posted in Gardening, tagged chard, compost, Gardening, honeysuckle, photos, squash, summer squash, swiss chard, tomatoes, zucchini on June 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday was our community garden association’s first all-garden workday of the year, since the one in May got rained out. I was assigned to the compost pile crew, which involved a lot of pitchforking. Bit by bit, we moved a giant pile of compost about eight feet south, which had the effect of both turning [...]
Zucchini Proliferation
Posted in Gardening, tagged summer squash, zucchini on May 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Less than a month ago, the cucurbits were just cotyledons pushing up out of their peat pots. I planted them outside maybe three weeks ago, and every week since then they’ve more than doubled in size. In twelve days, the zucchini went from this: to this: There are baby zucchini and summer squash in the [...]
Little Shop of Cucurbits
Posted in Gardening, tagged grow light, seedlings, seeds, squash, summer squash, tromboncino, watermelon, zucchini on April 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The official heat wave of the last several days is over, and now it’s drizzly and 65. There was a heat wave in my apartment, too. When the air conditioning is off during the day, my boxy little Federal-style rowhouse apartment heats up like a brick oven. A few weeks ago I stuck some zucchini, [...]
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