Green Goddess gets a makeover!

So after last Sunday’s solstice cocktail experimentation, Jeff decreed that while it tasted good, it looked like swamp water!  Green Goddess needed a makeover!  Some of this was due to the hurried making of the Five Spice powder syrup, which just got a quick strain before use, but some of it was also due to the [...]

Sorry teacher, the rabbit ate my beans! Summer Fest 2009, Week 3

Here we are near the end of Week 3 of SummerFest, 2009, and the theme this week is Greens and Beans.  Well, I’m sad to say I don’t have a lot of beans!

What!!! you say, haven’t you been gardening?  What’s wrong with you?

Well, this year in the garden, has been the year of the rabbit … [...]

May garden update: a garden on steriods!

The weird weather continues here: sunny days, but cool evenings and nights.  Just over a week ago, we had quite a stretch of wet, cool weather, and then all of a sudden, a week’s worth of sunny days, so things have been growing like crazy.  Here’s a bit of video footage from a traipse around the [...]

April video garden update

The title says it all.   I got a new Flip, so thought that it would be easier to walk around the garden rather than sit down and list off all the things happening in the garden.  Cameo appearances by Kimi and Eric.

Weather is warming up and veggies are finally starting to grow!  Yay!

April Garden [...]

Garden mini-update

Sunday was a beautiful sunny day, so spent some time in the garden planting out some of the cooler-weather crops, and transplanting things that had been spending time under the greenhouse-film covered hoops.  One square foot garden bed is filled right now, with plans to rotate in other veg as things ripe.

Small seeded fava beans are [...]