A novice's attempt to get 15 percent of his food from his suburban fifth acre
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 14th, 2010
Last week I dug up ready potatoes that had been thriving in a small plot below our bougainvillea. In the past two weeks the tops had turned yellow like straw and wilted to the ground. I gave them one last watering, as recommended in various readings I’d read, and a few days later carefully scratched [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 3rd, 2010
To be honest, at first I hated the tree that grows like a weed beside the Silk Oak in our lower yard. A gangly skeleton in winter and the plainest Jane at the height of spring, it called little attention to itself in any season. Its three trunks testify to others having felt the same [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2010
With the end of January we reached the middle of our effort in terms of days, but certainly not in terms of calories. The 7,568 calories we have managed to grow and eat from our yard since August 1 of last year represent .5 percent of our annual count, or about two days worth of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2009
We have been saving snow peas for three or four weeks, dutifully blanching and freezing them until a combination of preserved peas and fresh-picked measured out to two cups. We got there this past Sunday and made vegetarian split pea soup with our harvest. Our friends Paul and Amy, who are always game for a [...]
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