5 Tips for fresh sweet corn in mid-October
It’s mid-October and, believe it or not, I’ve still got sweet corn growing in the veggie garden. Eggplant, chili peppers, tomatillos and tomatoes too. In fact, we’ll probably be harvesting fresh “summer” produce well into mid-autumn.
It would be easy to dismiss the long harvest as a benefit of living in San Diego, but it’s not [...]
The Curious Case of the Tomatoes in the Tomato
Here’s a weird one.
Yesterday I went down into what remains of the vegetable garden to see what was usable for dinner. I found a couple of nice eggplants, plenty of basil and half a dozen ripe–heading towards over-ripe–tomatoes, so I decided to make Eggplant Parmesan. I picked the fruit and headed back to the kitchen.
I [...]
The Lazy Gardener’s Plant Pick: Feijoa (Pineapple Guava)
Autumn’s in full swing here at the ranch which also means it’s harvest time. Around here that means seasonal crops and a number of fruit trees – apples, persimmons, pomegranates and others grown from Maine to California.
It’s also harvest time for one prolific fruit tree that you don’t see very much outside of the USDA’s [...]
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