Marin Homestead
From the monthly archives: August 2009
I wanted to plant some herbs and greens outside my kitchen for easier access so my wonderful husband built me this. It has been quite warm with temperatures in the 80-90′s and sunny so we had to figure out a way to germinate the seeds since these do better in cooler temperatures so we planted [...]
Last thursday I went out to check on my melons and found this one had split. Boo…i had watered them lightly the day before and now know not do do that again. You would think I would have learned my lesson from the split charentais I had 1.5 weeks ago.
I was a little bummed [...]
Here is my charentais in the cinderblock garden. I have eaten one melon off this plant and it was delicious and have 4 left. The honey orange melon that was to the left of the charentais has been pulled out because I picked and ate the last melon on it yesterday (I will post pics).
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I have started to neglect my garden as well as my blog. Having 2 boys under the age of 2 will do that to you. I barely have time to harvest everything and have not canned, dried, frozen anything for this winter .
Here is the cinder block garden. The tomatoes are doing great. I [...]
I picked my first charentais melon yesterday. I went to the garden to check on it and it split at the bottom. I was a little bummed because this is the melon I was waiting to eat. Luckily there are 4 more melons on the same vine and the other charentais vine has another 4 [...]
I really don’t get sick of taking pictures of my harvest. I am like a proud mother hen. I just think that vegetables out of the garden are so beautiful and colorful. Look at the neat, fused marvel striped near the center. The other ones near it look like perfect little pumpkins.
Behind the marvel [...]
My Black Krim has been producing these big tomatoes. Some of them are quite interesting looking. I think they are beautiful in their own right, or as the French say “belle-laide” or “ugly beautiful”.
Made this delicious salmon nicoise salad for the family on wednesday. It is a great way to showcase your harvest.
I found this recipe on foodtv.com
Roasted Salmon Nicoise Platter
2007, Ina Garten, All Rights Reserved
Cook Time 15 min
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I picked my first bell pepper yesterday. It is an ace pepper and smaller than peppers in the grocery store and the walls are not quite as thick but the flavor is great. I have about 6-7 peppers on this little plant so for the amount of space that it takes it produces pretty well.
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I picked my first ripe melon today. It was an arava melon.It probably could have stayed on the vine a day or 2 longer but when i picked it up it slipped from the vine. It started turning yellow a few days ago so it ripened pretty quickly once the color change started.
Unfortunately we [...]
Here is a quick update of my mango trees. I bought them in January/February 2009 and did not protect them during the cold spells we had and they took quite a beating. They got hailed on but still survived.
This is some new growth on the Carrie Mango tree. I cut this tree way back [...]
Sorry I have been too busy to update the blog. It has been a great season and we are harvesting and eating vegetables and herbs out of the garden everyday. We have been doing alot of entertaining and are able to give tomatoes to our friends and family. Next year I will probably only plant [...]
