Comments on: Weekend Wrap-up (in photos)

By: Angelina

Angelina — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:41:25 +0000

My first favorite way to eat favas is to add the fresh shelled beans to a pasta with some other early spring vegetables like peas and asparagus and add some parmesean salt and pepper. Maybe some feta too.

The other favorite preparation is to shell the fresh favas and add them to polenta while it’s still hot, then pour the polenta into a cookie pan and let it cool in a 3/4 inch thick sheet. Then you cut it up and grill it. YUM. I usually add some garlic to the polenta too. Then we serve it with grilled vegetables and some marinara sauce with parmesean. YUM.

Sheesh, I’m getting hungry. I’m also wishing I had managed to plant favas.

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:39:09 +0000

Old Tangerine looks too cool! And those petunias, I just love the scents of the purple ones, especially on a warm and breezy day.. That scent just uplifts you!! Glad to hear that you found time to relax and forget about all the things that dont really matter (well atleast sometimes they dont

By: debra

debra — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:06:17 +0000

My garden is kind of limping along this year, since my attention is with my Dad. Thank goodness everything was planted before his stroke! The volunteer tomatoes are prolific, the lettuce was good last time I looked. Chard was growing–I’ve let the ones that wintered over go to seed and hope I get it together to collect the seed. Squash and cukes are up; celery looked ok.
Right now my attention is on the metaphorical garden–seeds of relationships sown long ago, in varying states of flower and fruit.
xoxo

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:35:03 +0000

Briana, the car came from a local guy who loves everything vintage. Unfortunately it only has 2 seatbelts (an improvement, last year it only had 1) so we haven’t gone for a family cruise in it yet. It pours exhaust into the cabin, too. P. U.

Yes, just crush the eggshells and work them into the soil with your fingers or a garden fork.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:32:38 +0000

That sounds like a plan, Kathy.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:31:28 +0000

Dawn, I don’t know about being my kid (I drop the ball a LOT)…but come on up and eat ice cream any time!!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:30:21 +0000

Hey Marcy! Thanks for the prep ideas…I read that they like cooler weather, but thought I’d give it a shot anyway because my garden gets a lot of shade. I suspect I’ll be disappointed, but that’s why I only planted a few. I’ll make sure I have a bed ready for early spring next season.

By: Briana

Briana — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:28:29 +0000

Ooo… my peppers are plugging along as well despite planting them to early and a hungry slug or two that found a way up to the damn container. I wish I had room to grow potatoes – that’s an abundance I could deal with. And Favas. And a fab muscle car – you can get those at the local nursery, right?

Hey… I decided on a whim that my tomatoes need more calcium (because I want to be just like you *wink*) so I washed and dried some eggshells. Um… now what else do I need to do? Just crush and scrub into the top soil? Eek! Thanks.