LOL Sjoerd. Rufus my dog has a pretty face but not me. We don't go out much, so we get interesting and special meals by making them. It's nice...
Here is my recipe. The crust is blind baked so it will be flaky. Prepare a crust for 1 crust pie. I use 1/2 recipe of the shortening recipe on...
There were lots of heirloom-type tomatoes, so I made a tomato pie. [IMG] I spend half the season looking forward to this. It's a lot of work,...
The brugmansia had its first flower. Sweetly fragrant. There are more buds. [IMG] Morning glories [IMG] The dwarf tomatoes are producing like...
@Melody Mc. I love looking at your garden photos. You accomplish so much with a cooler shorter season. Those blueberries will serve you well! I...
There were enough Asian pears to can a batch. There might be enough to can a second batch if they keep a few more days on the tree. [IMG]
Thank you @Melody Mc. . The food crops nourish the body. The flowers nourish the soul. These figs were pink-ish or light tan inside. They do...
Bummer! :setc_033: I wanted to get the stitching perfect, so I ordered tailors chalk, drew the first line, and sewed it. THEN I thought, I...
[IMG] Harvested some tomatoes. Most of the dwarf tomato varieties have nice big green ones. These are Livingston Dwarf Stone (red) and...
@Sjoerd, I love looking at your kitchen garden. It seems like the best a garden can be. I had visitors today. [IMG] They are why I have...
Sjoerd, thanks for the flowers compliment. I usually make fig jam. The recipe is included in the pectin package. I have a recipe for fig bar...
Some flowers today. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Alstroemerias are reblooming [IMG]
Fig harvest. These are "Desert King". [IMG] Other fig trees had a lot too. [IMG] I made fig jam. Very tasty. [IMG] Also pureed and froze...
The Extreme Dwarf Bush tomatos are producing well. So is EarlybGirl. Now we are getting nice yellows from DwarfGolden Champion are very tasty,...
Picked some figs. This year I've been watering the fig trees when I change the water in the duck pond. Maybe that's why they are so big and...
Harvest today. [IMG] Zukes, cukes, blueberries (pie tomorrow, oh boy!), summer squash, tomatoes, peppers, the year's first figs.
I got fittings at the hardware store to hook the gas stove up to portable propane tanks. I had already converted the stove itself to propane,...
We have some flowers blooming. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Trying to do less hard work. Fortunately nothing urgent needs doing. Just a little hand watering. The rest is on the drip lines. Harvesting a...
I got up early to water the sweetcorn, and ran the drip system for an hour. That's all. Volunteering today at the free clinic, where I do...
