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It's nice to be able to get some good fruit and veg.
They even had a Celtic quartet playing, which gave the whole market a medievel feel!
Fruit, Veg and Craft Market 9-1pm Saturday and Wednesdays
CERES
8 Lee St, East Brunswick 3068
(03) 9387 2609
Photos
- Bakery
- Celtic Quartet Celtic Quartet video
- Fruit
Kale is a member of the brassica family along with: cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, arugula, rutabaga, radish and mustard. Along with other brassicas, kale is a powerhouse vegetable. It provides more nutritional value per calorie than almost any other food around. It contains over 45 different flavanoids, vitamins A, K, C, magnesium, copper, calcium, vitamin B6, potassium, and many more. It also contains antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients, macronutrients, and cancer-preventive nutrients called glucosinolates. Cooked kale is healthier than raw kale, so it's important to cook it lightly and with some fat to make the vitamins more available and more easily absorbed. Here's a great article on the health benefits of kale if you'd like to learn more. Kale is also easy to grow in the garden, especially here in NE Ohio where our summers can be fickle and can easily cause broccoli and cauliflower to bolt before them produce heads. Kale seems not to mind the warm weather, although it's flavor is mellowed by frost and cool weather. Kale overwinters beautifully without any protection at all. I have had Red Russian kale growing in my front flowerbed for the past three years. It survives the winter, flowers in spring, seeds itself down and I have a nice crop for harvesting throughout fall, winter and spring.
East Bethesda, Maryland, Late September 2013. In the garden every year is different. Last year I was harvesting around 80-100 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes almost every day from late June through September. This year I'm getting only 8-10. I got a blast of BIG heirloom tomatoes in July; Mortgage Lifter, Cosmonaut Volkov, Neves, Argentine, ugly but delicious Vorlon from Bulgaria and the star of the show Amana Orange (by far the tastiest big one I've ever grown...). Last year Early Girl was a sugar bomb, this year a bore as were the highly touted Bloody Butcher variety; what works one year in one garden may manifest itself very differently in another place, another time. Other highlights this year were yellow summer squash, lemon thyme, lemon verbana, one precious Savoy cabbage, sweet red Texas Torpedo onions, yellow cippolini onions, Rioja Spanish garlic, "cheese" (shaped) sweet red roasting peppers, red and orange mini bell peppers, hot "fish" peppers from the Chesapeake region, Thai Dragon red peppers (not just hot but very flavorful...), Mammoth dill from California, crazy good oregano from Sicily and over 20 varieties of delicious lettuces (Little Gem, Red Sails, Outredgeous, Gentilina, Oak Leaf, Flame, Red Velvet, Rubin, Speckles, Flame, Sunset, Tango, Bon Jardin, Butter Crunch, etc.). Growing flavorful basil in Maryland is about as difficult as finding a cheap cold glass of beer in Baltimore Town. I grew (and mostly gave away...) Boloso, Genovese, Large Leaf from California, purple Violetto, Classico, Ararat from Armenia and a very unique and wonderful lemon flavored gem from Iran given to me as seed by a neighbor in 'the Chelsea". Flops included raddichico (last year awesome, this year hardly any that didn't bolt...), cilantro (quickly went to seed and turned purple/black yikes!), Mammoth yellow peppers (never turned yellow nor grew Mammonth but fell off the plant limp and green...), Jimmy Nardello peppers, Bordeaux Spinich, cute but weakly flavored "greek" bush basil, mostly sour strawberries, delicious but out of control mint and cucumbers (some kind of beetle infestation...). My front yard farm "store" (everything is free...) was a success in terms of doing the hang with our way cool neighbors and assorted folks traveling down our street. We've been rewarded with many new friends, thumbs up, right ons, travel tips, countless recipes, "marketing" advice, many bottles of good red wine, home grown produce, dinner invitations, gardening hints, political commentary, personal histories, memories of musical performances, neighborhood news, delicious homemade pesto, delicious summer squash soup, fiery hot pepper ketchup and more. Better still there's a sizable contingent of neighbors who have started growing their own vegetables and herbs including some things I never thought of planting.
East Bethesda, Maryland, February 21, 2015. It's been a pretty mild winter until last week when temperatures fell to the single digits. Today we got over 7 inches of snow. No tractors on South Chelsea Lane until Spring. Not much happening outside that you can see but plenty of action under lights in my basement. The garden will abide. On February 1 I started a tray of pepper plants. It took only three days for most of the seeds to germinate. Conditions? Jiffy Organic Seed Starting Mix, plastic trays with rigid clear plastic lids, 70-80 degree ambient temperature, shop lights with both cold and warm color temperature tubes 10" above the trays with height adjusting chains, moderate but constant applications of water as needed. After the seeds sprout and look like sturdy little plants I take the trays upstairs in the evening to a location that's cooler and darker. People, it's easy. If you're still buying plants from local corporate suppliers like Home Depot, Lowe's, Whole Foods etc. you should try to grow your own. The availability of heirloom, organic non-GMO seeds online is just astonishing. On May 1 I'll plant Corno DiToro Rosso Peppers, Etudia Orange Sweet Peppers, Szentes Hungarian Yellow Peppers, California Orange Bell Peppers, Red Cheese Peppers (the sweetest I've ever grown...), Red Thai Peppers, Chesapeake Fish Peppers and Baby Bell Sweet Peppers. In July we'll have plenty of fresh sweet and hot peppers for the table and for our neighbors.
East Bethesda, Maryland 2013. Sungold cherry tomatoes grown from from Johnny's Seeds. In the garden every year is different. Last year I was harvesting around 80-100 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes almost every day from late June through September. This year I'm getting only 8-10. I got a blast of BIG heirloom tomatoes in July; Mortgage Lifter, Cosmonaut Volkov, Neves, Argentine, ugly but delicious Vorlon from Bulgaria and the star of the show Amana Orange (by far the tastiest big one I've ever grown...). Last year Early Girl was a sugar bomb, this year a bore as were the highly touted Bloody Butcher variety; what works one year in one garden may manifest itself very differently in another place, another time. Other highlights this year were yellow summer squash, lemon thyme, lemon verbana, one precious Savoy cabbage, sweet red Texas Torpedo onions, yellow cippolini onions, Rioja Spanish garlic, "cheese" (shaped) sweet red roasting peppers, red and orange mini bell peppers, hot "fish" peppers from the Chesapeake region, Thai Dragon red peppers (not just hot but very flavorful...), Mammoth dill from California, crazy good oregano from Sicily and over 20 varieties of delicious lettuces (Little Gem, Red Sails, Outredgeous, Gentilina, Oak Leaf, Flame, Red Velvet, Rubin, Speckles, Flame, Sunset, Tango, Bon Jardin, Butter Crunch, etc.). Growing flavorful basil in Maryland is about as difficult as finding a cheap cold glass of beer in Baltimore Town. I grew (and mostly gave away...) Boloso, Genovese, Large Leaf from California, purple Violetto, Classico, Ararat from Armenia and a very unique and wonderful lemon flavored gem from Iran given to me as seed by a neighbor in 'the Chelsea". Flops included raddichico (last year awesome, this year hardly any that didn't bolt...), cilantro (quickly went to seed and turned purple/black yikes!), Mammoth yellow peppers (never turned yellow nor grew Mammonth but fell off the plant limp and green...), Jimmy Nardello peppers, Bordeaux Spinich, cute but weakly flavored "greek" bush basil, mostly sour strawberries, delicious but out of control mint and cucumbers (some kind of beetle infestation...). My front yard farm "store" (everything is free...) was a success in terms of doing the hang with our way cool neighbors and assorted folks traveling down our street. We've been rewarded with many new friends, thumbs up, right ons, travel tips, countless recipes, "marketing" advice, many bottles of good red wine, home grown produce, dinner invitations, gardening hints, political commentary, personal histories, memories of musical performances, neighborhood news, delicious homemade pesto, delicious summer squash soup, fiery hot pepper ketchup and more. Better still there's a sizable contingent of neighbors who have started growing their own vegetables and herbs including some things I never thought of planting.
East Bethesda, Maryland 2013. Basil from Italy. In the garden every year is different. Last year I was harvesting around 80-100 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes almost every day from late June through September. This year I'm getting only 8-10. I got a blast of BIG heirloom tomatoes in July; Mortgage Lifter, Cosmonaut Volkov, Neves, Argentine, ugly but delicious Vorlon from Bulgaria and the star of the show Amana Orange (by far the tastiest big one I've ever grown...). Last year Early Girl was a sugar bomb, this year a bore as were the highly touted Bloody Butcher variety; what works one year in one garden may manifest itself very differently in another place, another time. Other highlights this year were yellow summer squash, lemon thyme, lemon verbana, one precious Savoy cabbage, sweet red Texas Torpedo onions, yellow cippolini onions, Rioja Spanish garlic, "cheese" (shaped) sweet red roasting peppers, red and orange mini bell peppers, hot "fish" peppers from the Chesapeake region, Thai Dragon red peppers (not just hot but very flavorful...), Mammoth dill from California, crazy good oregano from Sicily and over 20 varieties of delicious lettuces (Little Gem, Red Sails, Outredgeous, Gentilina, Oak Leaf, Flame, Red Velvet, Rubin, Speckles, Flame, Sunset, Tango, Bon Jardin, Butter Crunch, etc.). Growing flavorful basil in Maryland is about as difficult as finding a cheap cold glass of beer in Baltimore Town. I grew (and mostly gave away...) Boloso, Genovese, Large Leaf from California, purple Violetto, Classico, Ararat from Armenia and a very unique and wonderful lemon flavored gem from Iran given to me as seed by a neighbor in 'the Chelsea". Flops included raddichico (last year awesome, this year hardly any that didn't bolt...), cilantro (quickly went to seed and turned purple/black yikes!), Mammoth yellow peppers (never turned yellow nor grew Mammonth but fell off the plant limp and green...), Jimmy Nardello peppers, Bordeaux Spinich, cute but weakly flavored "greek" bush basil, mostly sour strawberries, delicious but out of control mint and cucumbers (some kind of beetle infestation...). My front yard farm "store" (everything is free...) was a success in terms of doing the hang with our way cool neighbors and assorted folks traveling down our street. We've been rewarded with many new friends, thumbs up, right ons, travel tips, countless recipes, "marketing" advice, many bottles of good red wine, home grown produce, dinner invitations, gardening hints, political commentary, personal histories, memories of musical performances, neighborhood news, delicious homemade pesto, delicious summer squash soup, fiery hot pepper ketchup and more. Better still there's a sizable contingent of neighbors who have started growing their own vegetables and herbs including some things I never thought of planting.
East Bethesda, Maryland late September 2013. My first cantaloupe ever, grown from surplus plants given to me by a kind neighbor. We planted late so most of the fruit we see on the ground today will probably not mature before the first frost. In the garden every year is different. Last year I was harvesting around 80-100 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes almost every day from late June through September. This year I'm getting only 8-10. I got a blast of BIG heirloom tomatoes in July; Mortgage Lifter, Cosmonaut Volkov, Neves, Argentine, ugly but delicious Vorlon from Bulgaria and the star of the show Amana Orange (by far the tastiest big one I've ever grown...). Last year Early Girl was a sugar bomb, this year a bore as were the highly touted Bloody Butcher variety; what works one year in one garden may manifest itself very differently in another place, another time. Other highlights this year were yellow summer squash, lemon thyme, lemon verbana, one precious Savoy cabbage, sweet red Texas Torpedo onions, yellow cippolini onions, Rioja Spanish garlic, "cheese" (shaped) sweet red roasting peppers, red and orange mini bell peppers, hot "fish" peppers from the Chesapeake region, Thai Dragon red peppers (not just hot but very flavorful...), Mammoth dill from California, crazy good oregano from Sicily and over 20 varieties of delicious lettuces (Little Gem, Red Sails, Outredgeous, Gentilina, Oak Leaf, Flame, Red Velvet, Rubin, Speckles, Flame, Sunset, Tango, Bon Jardin, Butter Crunch, etc.). Growing flavorful basil in Maryland is about as difficult as finding a cheap cold glass of beer in Baltimore Town. I grew (and mostly gave away...) Boloso, Genovese, Large Leaf from California, purple Violetto, Classico, Ararat from Armenia and a very unique and wonderful lemon flavored gem from Iran given to me as seed by a neighbor in 'the Chelsea". Flops included raddichico (last year awesome, this year hardly any that didn't bolt...), cilantro (quickly went to seed and turned purple/black yikes!), Mammoth yellow peppers (never turned yellow nor grew Mammonth but fell off the plant limp and green...), Jimmy Nardello peppers, Bordeaux Spinich, cute but weakly flavored "greek" bush basil, mostly sour strawberries, delicious but out of control mint and cucumbers (some kind of beetle infestation...). My front yard farm "store" (everything is free...) was a success in terms of doing the hang with our way cool neighbors and assorted folks traveling down our street. We've been rewarded with many new friends, thumbs up, right ons, travel tips, countless recipes, "marketing" advice, many bottles of good red wine, home grown produce, dinner invitations, gardening hints, political commentary, personal histories, memories of musical performances, neighborhood news, world class homemade pesto, delicious summer squash soup, fiery hot pepper ketchup and more. Better still there's a sizable contingent of neighbors who have started growing their own vegetables and herbs including some things I never thought of planting.
East Bethesda, Maryland late September 2013. Speckle lettuce. In the garden every year is different. Last year I was harvesting around 80-100 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes almost every day from late June through September. This year I'm getting only 8-10. I got a blast of BIG heirloom tomatoes in July; Mortgage Lifter, Cosmonaut Volkov, Neves, Argentine, punk ugly but delicious Vorlon from Bulgaria and the star of the show Amana Orange (by far the tastiest big one I've ever grown...). Last year Early Girl was a sugar bomb, this year a bore as were the highly touted Bloody Butcher variety; what works one year in one garden may manifest itself very differently in another place, another time. Other highlights this year were yellow summer squash, lemon thyme, lemon verbana, one precious Savoy cabbage, sweet red Texas Torpedo onions, yellow cippolini onions, Rioja Spanish garlic, "cheese" (shaped) sweet red roasting peppers, red and orange mini bell peppers, hot "fish" peppers from the Chesapeake region, Thai Dragon red peppers (not just hot but very flavorful...), Mammoth dill from California, crazy good oregano from Sicily and over 20 varieties of delicious lettuces (Little Gem, Red Sails, Outredgeous, Gentilina, Oak Leaf, Flame, Red Velvet, Rubin, Speckles, Flame, Sunset, Tango, Bon Jardin, Butter Crunch, etc.). Growing flavorful basil in Maryland is about as difficult as finding a cheap cold glass of beer in Baltimore Town. I grew (and mostly gave away...) Boloso, Genovese, Large Leaf from California, purple Violetto, Classico, Ararat from Armenia and a very unique and wonderful lemon flavored gem from Iran given to me as seed by a neighbor in 'the Chelsea". Flops included raddichico (last year awesome, this year hardly any that didn't bolt...), cilantro (quickly went to seed and turned purple/black yikes!), Mammoth yellow peppers (never turned yellow nor grew Mammonth but fell off the plant limp and green...), Jimmy Nardello peppers, Bordeaux Spinich, cute but weakly flavored "greek" bush basil, mostly sour strawberries, delicious but out of control mint and cucumbers (some kind of beetle infestation...). My front yard farm "store" (everything is free...) was a success in terms of doing the hang with our way cool neighbors and assorted folks traveling down our street. We've been rewarded with many new friends, thumbs up, right ons, travel tips, countless recipes, "marketing" advice, many bottles of good red wine, home grown produce, dinner invitations, gardening hints, political commentary, personal histories, memories of musical performances, neighborhood news, delicious homemade pesto, delicious summer squash soup, fiery hot pepper ketchup and more. Better still there's a sizable contingent of neighbors who have started growing their own vegetables and herbs including some things I never thought of planting.
East Bethesda, Maryland late September 2013. Delicious Vorlon heirloom tomato from Bulgaria. In the garden every year is different but we never use GMO seeds nor any factory fertilizers and pesticides. You can grow an astonishing amount and variety of delicious organic produce in a very small space. I used to be a real 'black thumb' guy: if I even looked at a plant it keeled over dead. I've never read a book or even a magazine about gardening; my neighbors told me how to make this happen. There's probably some older folks (especially people from other lands...) in your neighborhood who can help you.
Last year I was harvesting around 80-100 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes almost every day from late June through September. This year I'm getting only 8-10. I got a blast of BIG heirloom tomatoes in July; Mortgage Lifter, Cosmonaut Volkov, Neves, Argentine, oddly colored but delicious Vorlon from Bulgaria and the star of the show Amana Orange (by far the tastiest big one I've ever grown...). Last year Early Girl was a sugar bomb, this year a bore as were the highly touted Bloody Butcher variety; what works one year in one garden may manifest itself very differently in another place, another time.
Other highlights this year were yellow summer squash, lemon thyme, lemon verbana, one precious Savoy cabbage, sweet red Texas Torpedo onions, yellow cippolini onions, Rioja Spanish garlic, "cheese" (shaped) sweet red roasting peppers, red and orange mini bell peppers, hot "fish" peppers from the Chesapeake region, Thai Dragon red peppers (not just hot but very flavorful...), Mammoth dill from California, crazy good oregano from Sicily and over 20 varieties of delicious lettuces (Little Gem, Red Sails, Outredgeous, Gentilina, Oak Leaf, Flame, Red Velvet, Rubin, Speckles, Flame, Sunset, Tango, Bon Jardin, Butter Crunch, etc.). Growing flavorful basil in Maryland is about as difficult as finding a cheap cold glass of beer in Baltimore Town. I grew (and mostly gave away...) Boloso, Genovese, Large Leaf from California, purple Violetto, Classico, Ararat from Armenia and a very unique and wonderful lemon flavored gem from Iran given to me as seed by a neighbor in 'the Chelsea".
Flops included raddichico (last year awesome, this year hardly any that didn't bolt...), cilantro (quickly went to seed and turned purple/black yikes!), Mammoth yellow peppers (never turned yellow nor grew Mammonth but fell off the plant limp and green...), Jimmy Nardello peppers, Bordeaux Spinich, cute but weakly flavored "greek" bush basil, mostly sour strawberries, delicious but out of control mint and cucumbers (some kind of beetle infestation...).
My front yard farm "store" (everything is free...) was a success in terms of doing the hang with our way cool neighbors and assorted folks traveling down our street. We've been rewarded with many new friends, thumbs up, right ons, travel tips, countless recipes, "marketing" advice, many bottles of good red wine, home grown produce, dinner invitations, gardening hints, political commentary, personal histories, memories of musical performances, neighborhood news, world class homemade pesto, delicious summer squash soup, fiery hot pepper ketchup and more. Better still there's a sizable contingent of neighbors who have started growing their own vegetables and herbs including many things I never thought of planting.
East Bethesda, Maryland late September 2013. Classico and Violetto basil from Italy. In the garden every year is different. Last year I was harvesting around 80-100 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes almost every day from late June through September. This year I'm getting only 8-10. I got a blast of BIG heirloom tomatoes in July; Mortgage Lifter, Cosmonaut Volkov, Neves, Argentine, ugly but delicious Vorlon from Bulgaria and the star of the show Amana Orange (by far the tastiest big one I've ever grown...). Last year Early Girl was a sugar bomb, this year a bore as were the highly touted Bloody Butcher variety; what works one year in one garden may manifest itself very differently in another place, another time. Other highlights this year were yellow summer squash, lemon thyme, lemon verbana, one precious Savoy cabbage, sweet red Texas Torpedo onions, yellow cippolini onions, Rioja Spanish garlic, "cheese" (shaped) sweet red roasting peppers, red and orange mini bell peppers, hot "fish" peppers from the Chesapeake region, Thai Dragon red peppers (not just hot but very flavorful...), Mammoth dill from California, crazy good oregano from Sicily and over 20 varieties of delicious lettuces (Little Gem, Red Sails, Outredgeous, Gentilina, Oak Leaf, Flame, Red Velvet, Rubin, Speckles, Flame, Sunset, Tango, Bon Jardin, Butter Crunch, etc.). Growing flavorful basil in Maryland is about as difficult as finding a cheap cold glass of beer in Baltimore Town. I grew (and mostly gave away...) Boloso, Genovese, Large Leaf from California, purple Violetto, Classico, Ararat from Armenia and a very unique and wonderful lemon flavored gem from Iran given to me as seed by a neighbor in 'the Chelsea". Flops included raddichico (last year awesome, this year hardly any that didn't bolt...), cilantro (quickly went to seed and turned purple/black yikes!), Mammoth yellow peppers (never turned yellow nor grew Mammonth but fell off the plant limp and green...), Jimmy Nardello peppers, Bordeaux Spinich, cute but weakly flavored "greek" bush basil, mostly sour strawberries, delicious but out of control mint and cucumbers (some kind of beetle infestation...). My front yard farm "store" (everything is, you know, like "free"...) was a success in terms of doing the hang with our way cool neighbors and assorted folks traveling down our street. We've been rewarded with many new friends, thumbs up, right ons, travel tips, countless recipes, "marketing" advice about my "business plan", many bottles of good red wine, home grown produce, dinner invitations, gardening hints, political commentary, personal histories, memories of musical performances, neighborhood news, world class homemade pesto, delicious summer squash soup, fiery hot pepper ketchup and more. Better still there's a sizable contingent of neighbors who have started growing their own vegetables and herbs including some things I never thought of planting.
East Bethesda, Maryland late September 2013. Cosmonaut Volkov from Russia. In the garden every year is different. Last year I was harvesting around 80-100 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes almost every day from late June through September. This year I'm getting only 8-10. I got a blast of BIG heirloom tomatoes in July; Mortgage Lifter, Cosmonaut Volkov, Neves, Argentine, ugly but delicious Vorlon from Bulgaria and the star of the show Amana Orange (by far the tastiest big one I've ever grown...). Last year Early Girl was a sugar bomb, this year a bore as were the highly touted Bloody Butcher variety; what works one year in one garden may manifest itself very differently in another place, another time. Other highlights this year were yellow summer squash, lemon thyme, lemon verbana, one precious Savoy cabbage, sweet red Texas Torpedo onions, yellow cippolini onions, Rioja Spanish garlic, "cheese" (shaped) sweet red roasting peppers, red and orange mini bell peppers, hot "fish" peppers from the Chesapeake region, Thai Dragon red peppers (not just hot but very flavorful...), Mammoth dill from California, crazy good oregano from Sicily and over 20 varieties of delicious lettuces (Little Gem, Red Sails, Outredgeous, Gentilina, Oak Leaf, Flame, Red Velvet, Rubin, Speckles, Flame, Sunset, Tango, Bon Jardin, Butter Crunch, etc.). Growing flavorful basil in Maryland is about as difficult as finding a cheap cold glass of beer in Baltimore Town. I grew (and mostly gave away...) Boloso, Genovese, Large Leaf from California, purple Violetto, Classico, Ararat from Armenia and a very unique and wonderful lemon flavored gem from Iran given to me as seed by a neighbor in 'the Chelsea". Flops included raddichico (last year awesome, this year hardly any that didn't bolt...), cilantro (quickly went to seed and turned purple/black yikes!), Mammoth yellow peppers (never turned yellow nor grew Mammonth but fell off the plant limp and green...), Jimmy Nardello peppers, Bordeaux Spinich, cute but weakly flavored "greek" bush basil, mostly sour strawberries, delicious but out of control mint and cucumbers (some kind of beetle infestation...). My front yard farm "store" (everything is free...) was a success in terms of doing the hang with our way cool neighbors and assorted folks traveling down our street. We've been rewarded with many new friends, thumbs up, right ons, travel tips, countless recipes, "marketing" advice, many bottles of good red wine, home grown produce, dinner invitations, gardening hints, political commentary, personal histories, memories of musical performances, neighborhood news, delicious homemade pesto, delicious summer squash soup, fiery hot pepper ketchup and more. Better still there's a sizable contingent of neighbors who have started growing their own vegetables and herbs including some things I never thought of planting.
East Bethesda, Maryland late September 2013. Delicious Paul Roebson tomatoes from Russia. They get pretty purple and dark when fully ripe. In the garden every year is different. Last year I was harvesting around 80-100 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes almost every day from late June through September. This year I'm getting only 8-10. I got a blast of BIG heirloom tomatoes in July; Mortgage Lifter, Cosmonaut Volkov, Neves, Argentine, ugly but delicious Vorlon from Bulgaria and the star of the show Amana Orange (by far the tastiest big one I've ever grown...). Last year Early Girl was a sugar bomb, this year a bore as were the highly touted Bloody Butcher variety; what works one year in one garden may manifest itself very differently in another place, another time. Other highlights this year were yellow summer squash, lemon thyme, lemon verbana, one precious Savoy cabbage, sweet red Texas Torpedo onions, yellow cippolini onions, Rioja Spanish garlic, "cheese" (shaped) sweet red roasting peppers, red and orange mini bell peppers, hot "fish" peppers from the Chesapeake region, Thai Dragon red peppers (not just hot but very flavorful...), Mammoth dill from California, crazy good oregano from Sicily and over 20 varieties of delicious lettuces (Little Gem, Red Sails, Outredgeous, Gentilina, Oak Leaf, Flame, Red Velvet, Rubin, Speckles, Flame, Sunset, Tango, Bon Jardin, Butter Crunch, etc.). Growing flavorful basil in Maryland is about as difficult as finding a cheap cold glass of beer in Baltimore Town. I grew (and mostly gave away...) Boloso, Genovese, Large Leaf from California, purple Violetto, Classico, Ararat from Armenia and a very unique and wonderful lemon flavored gem from Iran given to me as seed by a neighbor in 'the Chelsea". Flops included raddichico (last year awesome, this year hardly any that didn't bolt...), cilantro (quickly went to seed and turned purple/black yikes!), Mammoth yellow peppers (never turned yellow nor grew Mammonth but fell off the plant limp and green...), Jimmy Nardello peppers, Bordeaux Spinich, cute but weakly flavored "greek" bush basil, mostly sour strawberries, delicious but out of control mint and cucumbers (some kind of beetle infestation...). My front yard farm "store" (everything is free...) was a success in terms of doing the hang with our way cool neighbors and assorted folks traveling down our street. We've been rewarded with many new friends, thumbs up, right ons, travel tips, countless recipes, "marketing" advice, many bottles of good red wine, home grown produce, dinner invitations, gardening hints, political commentary, personal histories, memories of musical performances, neighborhood news, delicious homemade pesto, delicious summer squash soup, fiery hot pepper ketchup and more. Better still there's a sizable contingent of neighbors who have started growing their own vegetables and herbs including some things I never thought of planting.
Last week my mom and I started clearing out the pottager that we share. The popcorn was the first thing to go, as it was ready to be harvested. This year I planted 'Amish Butter' popcorn from Southern Exposure. I also planted 'Genuine Cornfield' bean, a special variety of shade tolerant pole bean to grow up the corn.
Fritillary - Melitaea phoebe ?
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Some people love cucumbers, some people hate them. I don’t like eating cucumbers, they give me indigestion in the worst way, even the so called “burpless” ones. I grow them, however because I LOVE them made into pickles. Somehow the process of fermenting them makes them so much more digestible for me.
The problem with making pickles when you have a small garden is that you usually harvest 4-5 cucumbers at a time, and most recipes call for pounds and pounds of pickles. Last year, I found a recipe for Small Batch Dill Pickles in The Joy of Pickling. They were very tasty, and I ended up making a few batches. If you only have a few pickles I'd highly recommend using this recipe, it makes a zesty dill pickle.
What’s your favorite way to enjoy cucumbers?
It's nice to be able to get some good fruit and veg.
They even had a Celtic quartet playing, which gave the whole market a medievel feel!
Fruit, Veg and Craft Market 9-1pm Saturday and Wednesdays
CERES
8 Lee St, East Brunswick 3068
(03) 9387 2609
Photos
- Bakery
- Celtic Quartet Celtic Quartet video
- Fruit
I've grown carrots in the garden almost every year. Here at Chiot's Run they aren't very fond of the heavy lean soil and thus they don't get very large. As a result I generally grow the small round variety. In my mom's garden however, she's spent years amending the soil and it's now a deep rich loam that grows some of the most beautiful carrots you've ever seen.
Just a reminder if you live in the colder northern climates, that it’s time to give your tomatoes a little fertilizer to ensure that they remain productive until the end of the season. Tomatoes are heavy feeders so they appreciate a little fertilizer mid-season to keep them growing and producing heavily until frost. If you fertilize now, you give them a little boost so they set new blooms and will produce a last flush of tomatoes before the cold fall weather.
I like to give mine a mid-season side dressing of bat guano, each plants gets a Tablespoon or two. Because of the make up of guano, it is very beneficial for fruiting plants and trees. I find that it helps my tomatoes green up nicely and set lots of new fruit this time of year. My bat guano comes courtesy of my dad, who harvests it from a local church belfry every couple years. You can also water every 3-4 weeks with a fish/seaweed emulsion as tomatoes really love that as well. Since I have very poor soil in the front garden, I use a very weak fish emulsion each month on those tomatoes, about 25% strength, my favorite is Neptune's Harvest Organic Fish & Seaweed. Side dressing with comfrey leaves is also beneficial for tomatoes, you can add the chopped leaves at planting time and mid-season.
From a sandwich board outside an Oxfam store in Germany.
Watch the movie, "Genetic Roulette" (which is available free AGAIN this week) and send it on to all your friends, family, co-workers, medical personnel, etc. (especially important for those living or who know people in California but this affects the entire world)
And watch these on Youtube!
The World According to Monsanto (Le monde selon Monsanto) watch FREE
Monsanto's Patent for a Pig watch FREE
And check out this project:
Then vote YES to labeling GE/GMO foods in California if you are in the state. Just say KNOW to GMO.
Tell the FDA:
www.JustLabelIt.org/takeaction
We all have a right to be informed of what we might be ingesting. It's the most personal decision we make, several times a day. No more ignorance.
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GE/GMO corn is currently grown in Spain, Portugal, and the Czech Republic (directly next to Germany) with the pressure on by the US and the WTO to accept them in every other country.
But almost all the animals for meat, eggs, and dairy in Europe and the US, currently are fed GE/GMO grains and sillage (all sprayed with Glyphosate aka Monsanto's Round-up which is creating superweeds while the pesticides engineered into every cell of the plant are creating super pests and also likely changing our gut flora while giving us leaky-gut syndrome (creating a host of ills including new allergies).
Plus I'm not convinced that the ubiquitous corn fields blanketing Deutschland to feed the biogas digesters (to make methane) are not full of Monsanto & Friends product since it's not being grown for food purposes (though it is polluting and releasing GMO genes through massive herbicide use, and the open pollination).
And there are 120 other biotech crops already approved or awaiting approval in Europe and elsewhere.
Quite frankly, with all the corporate scaremongering from the GMO companies -- led by the Master of them all Monsanto -- I cannot help but make comparisons to Mao Tse Tung and his Great Leap Forward, and later his Cultural Revolution campaigns in which millions upon millions died of starvation because of utter mismanagement, and complete incompetence.
What is this worth to us to give over complete control of the food supply to megalomaniac chemical companies?
As Kissinger implied in the 70s, Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people...
The day before yesterday, we had my family Christmas dinner & celebration. It’s a bit late because my mom’s being treated for breast cancer. As a result our holiday celebrations have been been worked around doctor’s visits and other appointments. After being postponed once, we were finally able to get together to celebrate on Monday. We’ve never been big on going all out, generally a simple affair is what we like. We gather for a meal, a few small gifts and then coffee and conversation. (here's my recipe for dinner rolls if you're needing a good one)
East Bethesda, Maryland, February 21, 2015. It's been a pretty mild winter until last week when temperatures fell to the brutal single digits. Today we got over 7 inches of snow. No tractors on South Chelsea Lane until Spring. Not much happening outside that's easy to see but plenty of action under lights in my basement. The garden will abide.
Pines' Green Superfoods give you Green Energy for that race-winning boost.
Packed with protein and vitamins, just one serving equals a serving of a dark-green leafy vegetable.
Give your body the health it needs in tablet, capsule or powder form. Cook with it, eat it raw, put into smoothies.
Pines was the official green food of the Kona Ironman Triathlon and has been the top green food choice for athletes for nearly 40 years. That's because top athletes don't take shortcuts on nutrition, and Pines doesn't take shortcuts in growing, harvesting or packaging its greens.
Check out all Pines' Products; Pines Wheat Grass, Pines Barley Grass, Pines Alfalfa, Mighty Greens and Green Duo.
Introduced in 1976, as the world's first green superfood, Pines products have never been packaged using wildlife-destructive plastic containers but have always been packaged in earth-friendly, amber glass bottles with special metal caps to seal in an oxygen-free environment, which prevents the nutrient loss through oxidation that occurs with plastic containers and paper packets.
Pines green superfoods are available at quality natural food stores everywhere.
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Title / Titre :
Swathing wheat during the harvest on the Matador Cooperative Farm, about 40 miles north of Swift Current, Saskatchewan /
Andainage du blé à la coopérative agricole Matador, à environ 65 km au nord de Swift Current (Saskatchewan)
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Gar Lunney
Date(s) : September 1952 / Septembre 1952
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 3224338
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Location / Lieu : Matador, Saskatchewan, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Gar Lunney. Canada. National Film Board of Canada. Library and Archives Canada, PA-159661 /
Gar Lunney. Canada. Office national du film du Canada. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, PA-159661
Here is what she had to say about Pines Alfalfa Tablets:
"Lately, I’ve been getting a boost of greens in an unexpected place: with alfalfa supplements from PINES, The Wheat Grass People. Alfalfa’s name is rooted in the Arabic word that literally means “father of all foods.” Its roots can grow up to 39 feet in length – extending deep into the earth for a variety of nutrients. PINES’ Alfalfa is a high-potency source of the antioxidant Vitamin A as Beta carotene. It’s also an excellent source of Vitamin K, and contains Folic acid, as well as small amounts of Vitamin C, calcium and iron.
"When you see the word ‘alfalfa,’ you probably think about the sprouts we add to our salads. Although there are some nutrients in these nearly translucent wisps, a more complex source of nutrients and rich chlorophyll actually come from the dark green leaves of the established alfalfa plant months after it germinates and grows to a height of several feet outdoors in soil. PINES Alfalfa is the ONLY certified organic, Non-GMO Project Verified alfalfa leaf."
A spoonful of Pines Alfalfa in water, #juice or #smoothie provides the equivalent of a generous serving of #kale or #spinach. Pines alfalfa and wheatgrass are also available in tablets. Both are convenient and economical ways to increase your dark #green #vegetable nutrition.
Pines is #vegan friendly and is unique as a Kansas producer of #wheatgrass and #alfalfa because our clean modern facilities have never been used to produce pesticide-based animal feed for the confined-animal, meat industry. We are the only company that still follows the 80-year quality standard of removing oxygen from glass bottles to prevent nutritional loss. That's why all Pines products provide more nutrition per dollar than devitalized greens in plastic tubs or paper packets.
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Decided to enjoy a raw whole milk latte and some made from scratch chocolate chip cookies while reading through the new 2010 USDA dietary guidelines. These cookies were made with: tons of organic pastured butter, organic freshly ground whole grain flour, organic sugar, organic eggs, and organic chocolate chips.
This beautiful image belies the fact that this crop is probably genetically engineered and certainly designed for large, pesticide-ridden monocultures. Central planning anyone? Meanwhile, the tiny organic demonstration gardens nearby seem unfunded and underrepresented. At the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. See: Family farming and
Small-scale agriculture vs. Factory Farms (2). Sustainable agriculture organizations in Canada (2) (3) including the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network.
Central Farm or Central Planning?
Sticker from Earth's General Store, in Edmonton, Alberta.
The most important documentary you could watch, Earthlings:
In addition to six stores in Ohio, Fresh Thyme now has 7 new stores in Indiana, 5 new ones in Illinois, 4 new in Michigan and many more on the way in these states as well as Missouri and Minnesota. Fresh Thyme is new kind of natural food grocery that is taking over the Midwest. Fresh Thyme is on the move with large beautiful stores.
Fresh Thyme Farmers Markets believe you shouldn’t have to give away the farm to feed your body nutritious food. They are on a mission to improve the way we eat by offering fresh and healthy food at amazing values - all in a vibrant and fun shopping environment, with smiling friendly faces. Their stores don’t follow traditional grocery store design, nor do they have tall aisles or glitzy fixtures. In fact, the stores are so simple and easy to navigate that they don’t number their aisles or hand out store maps. They believe shopping for fresh and healthy food should be easy and enjoyable.
At all Fresh Thyme Farmers Markets you will find a full range of Pines' #green superfoods in amber glass bottles with special metal caps that allow Pines to remove the oxygen for a freshest bright green products possible. Fresh Thyme not only believes in low prices but also believes in good value. They know that Pines provides much more nutrition per dollar that poorly grown green foods that oxidize quickly in cheap plastic tubs or paper packets, even when these poorly packaged products are heavily discounted.
If you find yourself in any of these States, please check out these great new stores and their outstanding produce departments at the center of each store.
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Last fall I planted heirloom potato onions in my garden, a few in the back a few in the front foundation garden. I just harvested them last week and I ended up with a wide variety of sizes, which will be nice for cooking. The ones in the front garden are the largest onions I’ve ever grown here at Chiot’s Run. I’m very impressed with these onions and I’ll definitely be saving a few to plant this fall. These are definitely the nicest onions I’ve ever grown here in my little garden.
This beautiful couple share a wonderful spiritual love. They also share eating plenty of dark green, leafy vegetables. They use and recommend green superfoods from Pines International for additional servings.
Jacqueline is a neonatal/pediatric nurse. She is healthy woman who works out regularly and eats nutritious food. She knows that studies show 9 out of 10 people do not eat enough green #vegetables. To increase her servings, she mixes #MightyGreens with water for a delicious beverage. She also takes #GreenDuo capsules when traveling. As a nurse, she sets an example and shares nutrition tips for every new mom she meets.
Elijah is a mixed martial arts strength coach (Instagram @fightfitnessllc.sbw). As a certified and licensed personal #trainer, he says, “I train models, #dancers, #bodybuilders, as well as #JuJitsu, #MuayThai and #boxing #athletes. I also train everyday people. In my opinion, nutrient-dense vegetables assist with muscle #recovery and maintaining #immune systems. Pines grows food rich in #antioxidants such as Pines Wheat Grass tablets (for on the go). They grow #PinesWheatGrass powder and Mighty Greens powder (for home/gym smoothie and shaker recipes).”
“Whether you train or not, your immune system’s strength determines how fast you heal and recover from colds, stress, flu, injuries and diseases. That’s why you need to eat your vegetables. Pines can help increase your green nutrition.”
Pines introduced the original #greensuperfood over 40 years ago with more than 100 small investors (average $200 each). They named the company after the pine tree because it is an international symbol of the peace in nature.
Pines is unique in the natural foods marketplace. That's because our products are not an “organic sideline” for a pesticide-based agribusiness or a major GMO based food corporation.
Instead, Pines grows its 100% Certified #Organic foods on small family farms. Our products are #Kosher, #glutenfree, #vegan, #raw and #NonGMOProject Verified as #GMOfree. Please use the locator at wheatgrass.com to find stores that carry Pines. You may also order direct.
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This book is scary, infuriating, heartwarming, empowering and inspirational. Part expose, part memoir, O'Brien's journey to becoming a crusader for quality food began when her daughter experienced an allergic reaction to eggs. O’Brien soon learned that “90 percent of all food allergies are triggered by proteins in eight foods: eggs, cow’s milk, wheat, soy, fish, shellfish, peanuts, and tree nuts.” Flummoxed by the news of her daughter’s egg allergy, she began researching to find answers about allergies that would help her protect her family.
She discovered alarming rates of childhood food allergies in the United States, which has seen a 400 percent increase in the past 20 years. Diagnosis of peanut allergies in the U.S. doubled between 1997 and 2002; no other country in the world experienced anything similar.
Her dedication to advancing understanding of parents through AllergyKids led to her learning about practices, structures and regulations contributing to the astonishing rise in childhood food allergies in the United States. Primarily, she discovered the reported increases in health concerns in the years following the introduction of genetically-modified (GM) crops used in food and food ingredients into the U.S. food supply.
Thinking we in the States wouldn't able to buy mainstream food that was bad for us, she checked into the regulations on GM crop-based food around the world; what she found was that other countries (pretty much everyone BUT us) uses the precautionary principle—“as long as you don’t know how it’s going to affect us, don’t put it in our food” (p. 138). Her argument rests on the fact that while other countries have determined reliable food safety assessments for food from GM crops, no GM crop in the United States has ever been thoroughly studied for safety. Yikes, right?
. . . Wrestling with the implications of what she learns about food, food reactions and food regulations, O’Brien documents her personal reactions and conversations with her husband, family, and doctors. She describes herself initially as someone who rolled her eyes at people who ate all organic and thought she couldn’t afford to buy organic food. The book traces her struggle to dismantle her “good little girl” belief system and question the dominant power structures crippling needed improvements to our food systems.
. . . O'Brien says the United States is a nation of 300 million eaters, all of whom are affected by the “ticking time bomb” our food system has become, but that together we can affect remarkable change in our food system and protect the health of our families.
Betsy McCann is a third year doctoral student in agricultural communications at Texas A&M University, serving this summer as a communications intern at the Rodale Institute.
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The Unhealthy Truth reveals the alarming relationship between the manipulation of our food and the increase in dangerous allergies in our children and cancers in our families—and offers a road map to healthy living.
While shopping I spotted this and was just about to ask the wife if she wanted to try some. Good thing I didn't. Forgot she was already in a pissy mood. Didn't want to add fuel to the fire.
Yesterday I went to my mom's and we harvested a row of 'Yukon Gold' potatoes. These were potatoes that she grew last year and she didn't get around to eating and found them sprouting in her root cellar this spring. We figured we may as well use them, so we planted them earlier this spring when we planted my sampler pack. They produced over 50lbs of potatoes!
East Bethesda, Maryland, early May 2014. What a winter. It seemed to never end. I usually have most of my plants in the ground by the middle of April. This year I waited until the end of the first week of May. I did manage to get grey French shallots and most of my onions planted by April 20. I started the shallots inside in pots at the beginning of February. Most of the big garlic plants you see at the front of the garden were put into the ground as bulbs in October; only about ten didn't make it through the harsh winter. Rosemary was a wipeout all over the Chelsea according to neighbor reports. This photograph shows a very robust Transylvanian garlic plant in the lower left corner, a row of grey French shallots, two rows of onions and a couple of baby pepper plants. In the garden every year is different but we never use GMO seeds nor any factory fertilizers and pesticides. You can grow an astonishing amount and variety of delicious organic produce in a very small space.
East Bethesda, Maryland, February 21, 2015. It's been a pretty mild winter until last week when temperatures fell to the single digits. Today we got over 7 inches of snow. No tractors on South Chelsea Lane until Spring. Not much happening outside that you can see but plenty of action under lights in my basement. On February 7 I started a tray of tomato plants. It took only about seven days for most of the seeds to germinate. Amazing! Conditions? Organic, low impact and non-GMO is how we roll. Jiffy Organic Seed Starting Mix, plastic trays with rigid clear plastic lids, 70-80 degree ambient temperature, shop lights with both cold and warm color temperature tubes 10" above the trays with height adjusting chains, moderate but constant applications of water as needed. After the seeds sprout and look like sturdy little plants I take the trays upstairs in the evening to cooler and darker location. People, it's easy. If you're still buying tomato plants from Whole Foods, Home depot and other corporate retailers you should really try to grow your own. Send me an S.A.S.E. and I'll mail you a bunch of cool seed FREE! On May 1 I'll plant delicious Vorlon Russian, Solar Flair, Armenian, Pomadoro, Ten Fingers Of Naples, Black Icicle, Paul Roebson, Striped Roman, Black Cherry, Sungold Cherry, Big Rainbow, Black Mauri, Roman Candle, Azoychka, Hillbilly Flame, Mortgage Lifter, Amana Orange, two types of Romanian tomatoes given to me by my gardening buddy neighbor, San Marzano Lungo and Aunt Ginny's Purple. Starting in July we'll have plenty of fresh heirloom tomatoes for the table and for our neighbors. The garden will abide.
As is natural to wheatgrass, these plants have been growing for six months in cold weather and are still not as tall as the extremely unnaturally-grown stuff grown quickly in too-warm, too-crowded conditions that people drink as #wheatgrassshots.
It was real #wholefood #wheatgrasspowder grown like the picture that was used by doctors and hospitals for the phenomenal research that inspired #AnnWigmore and other authors.
The #wheatgrass in the picture has been growing slowly in cold weather for six months, which is natural. Obviously, it is not being grown quickly in too-warm and too-crowded conditions in a tray.
It also does not contain the high mold and bacteria levels that occur when wheatgrass is crowded 300 times too close and roots are prevented from going down a foot deep in rich soil as they should.
In another week, the dehydrated powder from the plants in this picture will contain four times more nutrition than a #wheatgrassshot and will cost a small fraction of what is being charged for them.
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Yesterday afternoon was really beautiful; the sun was shining and it was in the high 30′s temperature wise. Perfect for digging up the back hillside and planting some of the tulips that have been waiting in the garage. About dusk, I wandered back into the maple grove to look around and to my surprise I noticed some of the my mushrooms logs had started to produce mushrooms!
Inoculating logs is easy, basically you drill holes in the logs 3-4 inches apart in a diamond pattern, pound in the spawn plugs, cover with wax and let sit in a shaded area. After a few months you can start watering the logs to encourage fruiting, or you can let them fruit naturally during spring and fall rains.
I harvested my ‘Red Gold’ potatoes from the front garden a few weeks ago. It always amazes me when I dig potatoes, you plant one small potato and dig up a bucketful. The yields in my garden are slightly smaller than the ones we harvested from my mom’s garden, but I wasn’t disappointed.
My mom and I also harvested the 'Carola', 'All Red', 'All Blue', and 'Purple Viking' that we planted in her garden. We were quite impressed with the yields, I think the total weighed in around 40 pounds for these varieties. It was quite fun to harvest such a colorful variety of potatoes. I got this collection from potato sampler from Seed Savers in the spring.
I had three large Organic Delicata Squash I got from my co-op and decided to cook them today. This turned out pretty tasty. It's my favourite squash of all!!!
1-1/2 cups cashew milk
2 scoops chocolate fudge vegan protein
2 Tbsp frozen Organic orange juice concentrate
1 tbsp dutch cocoa
1-1/4 tsp Pines Organic #wheatgrass powder from @wheatgrass_people
1 cup frozen organic blueberries
Topped with pine nuts, chocolate covered cacao nibs, and a mandarin orange!
As always, #ckscooking :-)
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CK teaches sourcing individual ingredients rather than using complex blends.
This is especially important for #greensuperfood products, which can be blended with darkly colored ingredients to hide poor color and quality.
When you select single ingredients rather than blends, you can see, smell, touch and taste each individual ingredient to check for quality.
All Pines products are packaged in amber glass bottles with special metal caps containing tight seals that allow us to remove the oxygen.
This safeguard protects sensitive nutrients from the oxidation and loss of nutrients that occurs when green food products are packaged in plastic tubs or paper packets. After opening, the special caps allow you to tightly seal the product between uses to keep it fresh and vibrant.
Nearly all our Pines products consist of ingredients that we grow ourselves on our own #familyfarm. All products are certified #organic, #gmofree, #raw, #Kosher and #glutenfree.
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East Bethesda, Maryland, early May 2014. What a winter. It seemed to never end. I usually have most of my plants in the ground by the middle of April. This year I waited until the end of the first week of May. I did manage to get grey French shallots and most of my onions planted by April 20. I started the shallots inside in pots at the beginning of February. Most of the big garlic plants you see at the front of the garden were put into the ground as bulbs in October; only about ten didn't make it through the harsh winter. Rosemary was a wipeout all over the Chelsea according to neighbor reports. In the garden every year is different but we never use GMO seeds nor any factory fertilizers and pesticides. You can grow an astonishing amount and variety of delicious organic produce in a very small space.
My dog Jack is an outstanding athlete who seldom misses.
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Solanum tuberosum.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_tuberosum
These tiny beauties were so sweet in my last harvest that they deserved to be sequestered and enjoyed as a special treat. Delicious, they were! A simple boil and a sprinkle of salt. No skinning required. One bite each!
You can't find these in a supermarket!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_tuberosum
"Potatoes were introduced outside the Andes region four centuries ago, and have become an integral part of much of the world's food supply. The potato is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat and maize."