Monthly Archives: June 2011

There’s an old adage that advises corn growers to have the water boiling before you pick the corn.   So as I write this there is a pot of water coming to a boil on the stove. It’s harvest time
for sweet corn here in our test garden, and here’s the blow-by-blow:

We grew Stowell’s Sweet Corn, an heirloom variety, for the first time this year. We planted 20 plants in a 4×4 square foot bed (using Grow BioIntensive hexagonal spacing. Confession: the bed should
only have fit 16 plants, but we …
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The latest post on Mar Vista Patch.com is available – learn the truth about that bottle of olive oil in your pantry:

Mar Vista’s Liquid Gold
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There’s a point at which every garden hits autopilot. With a little planning and adequate irrigation it can happen while you’re on vacation. During my trip to Italy my garden took off, and when I got
back it was time to harvest the first fruits of the season. (My apologies to those still covered in snow out there. Your time is coming )

Some  may recall that our community garden plot was going through some hard times last year – excessive zinc in the soil, nematodes – things were just …
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It happens every once in a while, probably every few months. Some people go on a bender. I go on a cooking jag.

The latest cooking jag involved making bread from a new book (more on this later), finding new ways to use a mountain of freshly harvested kale, and making the seemingly simple recipe for home made
yogurt in a Thermos. It seems like every newsletter and magazine I opened in May featured home made yogurt, so the time had come to try it out.

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