Posts tagged with "vegetables":

Fall is near, with mornings feeling a bit chillier, and in my garden, hundreds of tomatoes and peppers asking to be harvested. This recipe is little more a basic guideline that can be edited at will to match what you have on hand. Quantities are entirely to your taste. The basic ingredients are: tomatoes ( sauce tomatoes are preferable, but any tomato will do) jalapeños or other fresh hot peppers garlic salt Using a heavy skillet or griddle, roast the peppers and tomatoes on medium heat...

Left to Right: Similar views of the garden in June, July, and August. Since transplanting the first little seedlings in May, my northern California vegetable garden has undergone quite a transformation. The growing season started late because of plentiful spring rain, and was followed by a series of heatwaves through July. Most of August has been socked in practically every morning and evening with coastal fog, which has significantly slowed the growth rate of all of the veggies. These past few days...

I consider myself lucky to live in a part of the world that makes gardening immensely rewarding without having to work very hard. Western Sonoma County northern California has a relatively short, mild winter, a warm summer moderated by proximity to the coast, and a long autumn which extends the harvest time of heat-loving crops like tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, melons and peppers. My husband and I always plant vegetables in the part of the back yard that has a seasonal creek run through it in the winter...

The ‘days to maturity’ number tells you how many days until a plant will be mature enough to begin producing vegetables, fruits or flowers. For seeds that are best started in containers for later transplanting (e.g. tomatoes and peppers), the number of days to maturity starts after the seedlings are transplanted into the garden. For example, we list Juliet tomato as taking 60 days to mature. This means that, on average, a Juliet tomato plant will produce its first ripe tomato about 60 days after the...