Tomato Harvest 2011
Of everything grown in the kitchen garden throughout the year, no harvest is more anticipated than that of our heirloom tomatoes. Each year, even when schedules and daily life are too hectic to plant anything else, we make time to plant tomatoes. A summer without...
Our Great Heirloom Squash Experiment
This year we devoted an area toward the north end of the orchard to growing an assortment of heirloom summer, and winter squash. The intent was to see which varieties performed the best here, when compared side by side, under the same growing conditions. With our...
July Garden Update
While much of the country has been struggling to stay cool in record-breaking heat, this is our second summer in a row with unseasonably cool temperatures, and so far at least, the edible garden seems to be more or less on par with where it was last year....
Harvesting Garlic
Of everything we grow in the vegetable garden the only item used in the kitchen with greater frequency than fresh garlic, is onion. From salad dressings to soups, to breads, and baked dishes, there are a myriad of uses for garlic in the Curbstone Valley kitchen. We...
May Garden Update: Part I
It’s been all about the bees lately, and soon it will be all about our new greenhouse that recently arrived, in a zillion boxes, that needs to be unpacked, assembled, and installed. Before we get too distracted with greenhouse construction over the next few...
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