The garden is blowing up!

Those Ludacris' are coming in great!

Los Angeles vs. Corvallis (off topic)

I've lived lots of places...LA being one that I actually go back and visit from time to time. I like it in small doses because it's so different from where I've chosen to "put roots down" (Corvallis, OR). You might be saying to yourself "come on now, how different can it really be, Jane". Well a run I took up Dimple Hill the other day made me realize just how different. I'm having trouble lining these pix up so see if you can guess which is which!

8/9/11 Garden Update brought to you by Jonathan Richman

I've been trying to enjoy all the fruits of my labor...

but it's hard because only two tomatoes have fully ripened and there are like a grillion green ones just sitting there. i'm looking up recipes for Fried Green Tomatoes and now i think i should re-watch that glorious movie too since i capitalized it just now.

so what do we have at this moment? zucchini, lots of it. i read that it's the sure sign of a novice gardener to let their zucchini get huge and then think they are some sort of miracle earth goddess who with only their deft and loving touch could create such an amazing specimen. i thought this just 2 years ago when I grew a Dirk Diggler sized zucchini in our sad Portland garden. only flaw with this way of thinking is a) it's easier to grow zucchini than hairs on your chin b) the bigger it gets the worse it tastes. I am not going to make a witty pun on part B by the way although I really want to.

What else do we have? A large variety of peppers and a few tomatillos...I find that a great way to use up peppers when you have too many is to buy some chorizo and sizzle them up together.

We have a decent amount of strawberries...we have a few DELICIOUS snap peas (note to self, grow a full row of these next year). We have scallions. We also have a lot of chamomile. But once the flowers dry it do

esn't seem like alot (see my previous blog and the picture below for proof).

In the next couple of weeks i know i'll have lots of bright red vibrant tomatoes and crispy, scrumptious lemon cukes. Oh and summer squash is getting there too. I will have them all at once, get overwhelmed,not know how to cope and freak out. Can't wait!

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