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Penelope
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- Pocatello, Idaho
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- Where do you live and garden?
- Pocatello, Idaho, USA
- How long have you been growing food?
- forever!
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Provence, France, where tomatoes taste incredibly wonderful and people treat eating with reverence.
- Favorite foods:
- Paella, Spaghetti sauce the way I make it, Greek marinated cauliflower, Shortrib one-pot meal with carrots, whole onions, potatoes and giant wedges of cabbage; raw peas fresh from the garden, new potatoes roasted in butter with coarse sea salt, pickled beets, wilted lettuce with green onions and hot bacon vinaigrette, steamed fresh green beans, homemade wholegrain bread with raspberry jam
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Posted on September 16, 2009 at 3:52pm — 9 Comments
Juggling the Jungle
I dug in, picked the snowpeas and snap peas hanging on the drooping vines and found a few green beans as well. Tomatoes are barely setting on. Nothing on the pepper plants even though they've been blooming. The b… Continue
Posted on July 19, 2009 at 11:24am — 3 Comments
Juggling the Jungle
I dug in, picked the snowpeas and snap peas hanging on the drooping vines and found a few green beans as well. Tomatoes are barely setting on. Nothing on the pepper plants even though they've been blooming. The b… Continue
Posted on July 19, 2009 at 11:21am —
Wilted Lettuce, Wilted Life
Posted on May 24, 2009 at 2:02pm — 4 Comments
Sunshine in Pocatello and a bit about Onions
Today, I raked caked up leaves off my gravel area and piled them where I want to suppress some weeds. I exposed the chives that I separated last year and replanted; they… Continue
Posted on April 5, 2009 at 2:14pm — 4 Comments
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- At 11:44am on November 4, 2009,
Kathryn said… - You know I copied your comment from my page into this comment box so I dont forget what you wrote then I delete it before I press the button. Sorry. LOL and I still forgot about the crab cakes........they sound great especially with the lime sauce.
- At 11:41am on November 4, 2009,
Kathryn said…
- How is your new place? Are you enjoying it? Any new recipes? My friend Jonathan made a curry last night, a bit too hot for me, but the flavor was good. I made crab cakes from canned crab which were pretty good with the lime flavored sauce.
Yes enjoying living here it is much warmer and the house in centrally heated. Last year this time we were freezing and walking through snow, the climate is much milder the food is more economical and more diverse as well. Love a good curry, he needs to make those milder creamier ones for you. I am making brocolli soup at the moment, as for new recipes I always have some. Will post one or two tomorrow. Getting back to pulses in the cold weather might make a lentil salad or pilav. pomegrantes are still in so enjoying them and have just processed a few kilos of olives for fun. Like your web site and will have to sign up for the updates. I had a potter for a friend who made custom designed funeral urns, she did quite well. Maybe your shrouds will be the same. Take care.
- At 6:14am on November 4, 2009,
Kathryn said…
- Hello how are you have thought of you. Has it snowed there yet and is your heating adequate. My question mark is not working sorry. Tell me what weaving you are doing lately.
- At 3:26pm on November 2, 2009,
Glenn Fletcher said… - Hi Penelope
I,ll bring an apple over. It will only take me a minute.
You said you had a frost at the beginning of October. We havn,t had one yet.
We,ve have had one of the best autumns in years. Cool but sunny mornings. My favourite time to be in the garden.
- At 11:17am on October 15, 2009,
Maxine Walker said…
- On grapevine pruning Penelope I meant to say I prune last seasons growth down to two nodes each when the vine is leafless or just as it's starting new growth - NOT the new growth coming on!
- At 10:35am on October 1, 2009,
Kathryn said…
- You know when we were kids we had a black cat but with a more innocent name. Vegemite - being American that probably wont hold any meaning for you. But Johnathons cats name, every culture can appreciate.
- At 9:49am on October 1, 2009,
Kathryn said…
- We went to where my husband has some land in a mountain village on the weekend. There are trees laden with pomegranetes and figs. İ made fig jam and İ will go back and take as much as İ can to make more jam and fig chutney. İm also not leaving all those pomegrantes there either so hopefully will go back in a months time to harvest those.
- At 9:46am on October 1, 2009,
Kathryn said…
- İm surprised to hear its that cold there already, Carol said they had thier first freeze she is somewhere over there. İt is still about 25 degrees during the day and getting cool at night. Just cold enough for a light jacket. İf its windy you need a bit more. Thank God here will not be as cold as the last place, they have told me it snows though. Hows your new room mate going? Basil is still going strong here to.
- At 11:44pm on September 11, 2009,
chris w said… - I ended up with some surprise plants, too. I have several yellow tomatoes of some sort. I canned two pints of them today. It might be strange to eat soup this winter and have yellow broth instead of red but I couldn't let them go to waste! Let me know if you want any zucchini! I've been giving them away lately. About the time I get sick of them they slow down.... but meanwhile I have a month or so of over abundance.
- At 12:11am on September 2, 2009,
chris w said…
- Hi, Penelope! Hows it going? My tomatoes have started to come in - finally. What a strange year. I planted 'mixed' tomato seeds and found out I have a number of yellow tomatoes coming in - I was waiting for them to turn red until I found a rotting one and realized that's what I had! How fun! I think I like the 'unknown' tomato plant approach, its more of an adventure! How are your tomatoes?
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