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Re: My Bountiful Garden (picture thanks to Clo's help with "tinypic"!)

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fizzy,

In NY we can't "establish plants", the weather & short season doesn't allow for that, they need to be started every year.
Veggies & fruit & berries are cheap in season, it doesn't pay to plant now that my family is grown.

Oven dried tomatoes are like little jewels, flavor packed & make any dish special. I make an acorn squash risotto & add them at the last minute. The color from the squash gives you a sense of lots of cheese, I just grated some on top.
I baked the acorn squash first.

My sister made a tomato pie, delicious. The crust had cornmeal with flour & butter, great texture. Carmelized onions blended with mozeralla & aziago cheese, herbs & mayo to bind, tomatoes drained to remove most of the water placed on top & baked.

She also made an appetizer, pureed peas, basil, mint & grated cheese, S&P on top of toasted french bread.
I made lemon bars ;)) clo




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Re: My Bountiful Garden (picture thanks to Clo's help with "tinypic"!)
By: fizzy
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Wed, 29 Jun 11 4:07 AM
Msg. 33669 of 45510

Clo, It sounds as though you might be better able to feed yourself than I thought! I suggest you start another garden so you have plants well established when you get hungry!

This is a very radical departure for me, as I said. Under different circumstances I probably would have started another business, but what is the point when the country is rapidly degrading into totalitarian dictatorship and kleptocracy. So, growing has many upsides right now: distraction, security, and maybe eventually another business venture.

Only a year ago I thought I had only a brown thumb...my wife gave me a lot of help, guidance, and inspiration and now I believe differently. My longer term goal is to, hopefully, figure out how to terraform larger parcels using permaculture techniques and maybe some innovative thinking of my own. Only time will tell. At this point I am still, very much, in learning mode.

Thank goodness for trees, I've got to say. I may not always get them right but quite a few are pretty well established already and I can imagine a few years hence when I don't necessarily have to garden at all ... just walk around picking things in season. Shade, food, economics, and climate modification all in one.


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