Well… yesterday, the first day of November, I harvested the very last of my veggies, the single head of radicchio that didn’t bolt in the spring, the teeny parsnips and the skinny leeks. We grilled the leeks and the radicchio and dressed them simply with a little balsamic, lemon, olive oil and salt and pepper,…
Tag: vegetable
First harvest
Last summer I cleared myself an overgrown section of the front gardens to make into a veggie plot. It was a hugely daunting task, since the approximately 12 by 6 foot plot was thickly overgrown with ivy and self-propagated day lilies. Not to mention tulip and hyacinth bulbs that had been planted there by Chris’s…
It’s come a long, long way
I inherited this garden when I first started seeing my partner. When we met, I was living in a second story apartment of a house, with only a tiny patio and a garden in pots. He’d been living in this house for probably about ten years, since his great aunt was moved into a long-term…