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The best low-maintenance edibles: food growing for the time crunched

August 12, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 8 Comments

Potatoes: it doesn’t get much easier. I don’t have hours a week to spend in the garden. I wish I could say that I do daily rounds of all my garden spaces, carrying a big wicker basket and leisurely harvesting things that need picking, casually plucking the occasional weed, and generally doing a lot of […]

Filed Under: Perennials, Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: fruit, low maintenance, popular, self-seeding edibles

Now Harvesting: early August

August 8, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

I love coming home from holiday. Sleeping in my own bed. Unpacking. Airing out the house. Watering. This homecoming was even sweeter because the garden had treats waiting for me. The first tomatoes – ripe n’ ready. Cucumbers – perfect. Potatoes – SO ready (so ready, in fact, that they warrant a whole ‘nother post). […]

Filed Under: My garden, Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: Now Harvesting

Fighting tomato blight

August 1, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

The last few years I’ve grown tomatoes, they’ve come down with the blight (kind of the tomato equivalent of bubonic plague). What to do? I had dinner with some Italian friends, and we had a rousing discussion of how to prevent/cure tomato blight, which dissolved into conflicting “true stories” involving home remedies and nylon stockings. […]

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Now Harvesting: mid-to-late July

July 25, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

Wow – where did July go? I’ve been too busy working on the final proofs of my book to be able to do much lounging or gin-and-tonic drinking (two things, that, without which, summer is not complete). The good news is that the book is done! Well, my role in it, anyway – at least […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: Now Harvesting

Allium porrum

July 16, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 6 Comments

No, it’s not the latest ornamental allium – they’re leek flowers. Pretty, eh?

Filed Under: Indoors, Inspiration, Veggies & Edibles

Now Harvesting: early July

July 12, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

The sole ‘Thumbelina’ carrot I managed to raise to maturity (yes, they’re supposed to resemble golf balls in their shape and size!) My garden is officially in limbo land. We didn’t get summer weather (read: consistently above 15C/29F) until just last week, and then it hit – hard. So all my cool-season edibles, such as […]

Filed Under: My garden, Veggies & Edibles

Now Harvesting: late June

June 30, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 7 Comments

Finally! Something other than greens. This week marked the first garlic harvest. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that my garlic (about a dozen heads grown at the community garden) had a major case of rust. Rust is a fungal disease that looks exactly like – you guessed it – rust. Not having personally […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: Now Harvesting

Now Harvesting: mid-June

June 22, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 7 Comments

Okay, I’m a little late for Harvest Monday. But Harvest Tuesday sounds just as good, no? Not much new to report in the way of new edibles this week. I’m still harvesting salad greens by the bucketful (well, bowl full, at least): endive, various lettuces, beet greens, radishes. We’ve also been eating a lot of […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: Harvest Mondays, Now Harvesting

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