Mary Beth: Ray and I were under the weather on Labor Day weekend, so I decided to make a nutritious soup using all the wonderful vegetables in my garden. As I was picking the ingredients for the soup, I was thinking about the article I read on the Garden Rant blog where the author mentions [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tomatoes’
Taking the Cure
Posted in Block Island, Cooking, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Basil, Beets, Block Island, Carrots, Garden, Herbs, Kale, Leeks, Organic, Recipe, Roma Tomato, Soup, Squash, Swiss Chard, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
WTF’s Eating My Tomato Plants?
Posted in Block Island, Critters, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Dogs, Garden, Garden Pests, Gardening, Organic, Plants, Tomato Hornworm, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Mary Beth: Oh how wonderful it is to be standing in the garden looking at those beautiful tomatoes, feeling proud of my babies and thinking of all the delicious meals I’m going to make. Mmm.
Wait! Something catches my eye. WTF?! Something is chewing big chunks of my plants! My tomatoes!
A shiver runs down my spine [...]
Tomato, Tomahto
Posted in Block Island, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Island, Seaweed, Seedlings, Tomato Varieties, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden on April 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
MB: This is the time of year when everyone’s daydreaming about their vegetable gardens and the star of the dream is usually the tomato. Everybody has their favorite tomato — or ten. The reasons for these preferences are as numerous as the varieties of this delectable vegetable. (And don’t start with the “Is it a [...]