A Few Thoughts about my Garden by Scott Verdin, Serious Pie Server
Shelley (blog editor) and I have talked gardening for years, but I sorta gave up til this summer. So much to remember, to learn.
I planted random things… things I like…some heirloom tomatoes, mixed carrots, mixed lettuce, some yellow crookneck squash, and bush beans… all in pots… oh, and always basil.
What I learned… that tomatoes have a mind of their own. That beans come in crops…lots at one time!!… I used everything and actually made some sauce from the tomato plants I cut and hung in the basement….I still had ‘fresh’ tomatoes in late November!… Well, a few.
Carrots can get woody.
I also learned that if you plant things, you need to know more than just how to cook…. blanch and freeze, can, pickle… I can only blanch/freeze, but, hey, I have frozen pesto and tomato sauce in ice cube trays, then into ziploc bags…. enough for an army. So I will learn to can, etc, for next year.
I will choose more carefully, what I plant….I need a plan.
The picture of the open face tomato sandwich with Best Foods mayo, salt, and pepper was worth the whole thing!!! Well, eating it was the best.
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