Grazing in the Garden: Zucchini Napoleon
A hat tip to Shawna Coronado and Chris Perrin over at The Casual Gardener for coming up with a gem of a recipe in Zucchini Napoleon (technically Chris’ recipe and Shawna’s ingredients).
It’s a pretty simple recipe that includes some fried zucchini, roasted cherry tomatoes and Mozzarella cheese stacked into a veggie sandwich and topped off [...]
A new addition to the family
I was about to write a post about the tomato trials I have going on in the garden but I heard a peeping sound out back by the chicken coop, and decided to go see hat the ruckus was about.
When I got out there I found one of our decorative chickens (“decorative” because she’s a [...]
Photo of the Day: Guard Duty
I walked into my drive today and looked across the road to see this little guy staring back at me from atop an old fence post:
That’s a male California Quail. What’s not readily apparent from the photo is that he is standing on a post that’s about 3 feet above of 25 or so more [...]
Garden Trial: Organic “Dot Pots”
Last winter I was browsing through one of my seed catalogs when I ran across something called Dot Pots.
According to the catalog description Dot Pots are “the world’s only 100% organic, OMRI-listed biodegradable pots,” and are made from only two natural ingredients: wood fiber and peat moss.
Being dedicate to organic gardening, I prefer organic everything [...]
Sunflower update
June was an unusually cool month here in the San Diego area, so the sunflowers really seemed to stall out. Then the last week of June the clouds disappeared, the days heated up and bang! — The sunflowers took off.
» This is the garden on June 7, 2009
Here it is on June 30th, 2009:
And here [...]
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