squash blossoms

These are not from my garden - I wish! Swung by the Ferry Building Farmer's Market today and as the stands were packing up, a purveyor offered me my pick for $1. They are a little thorny, but I'm going to see what a little shallot/ricotta stuffing and some braising in chicken stock will do....


ps. Kris, if you haven't noticed, this is my FAVORITE bowl for veggie photo shoots! Thanks for it!

jumping on the fava bandwagon!

Reaped a good haul of favas - round 2!- along with some lovely, lovely leeks! I feel like I've waited a LIFETIME for those leeks, but LOOK AT 'EM! Gorgeous!

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Fava's Are In

Don't they look great? I still have a bunch more to harvest. Tonight I'm heading home to make Fava Garlic Spread. Easy to make and great on toast points. Recipe to follow.

All In

Tomatoes are in!!! I've planted 8 plants total. 6 in the garden with the neighbors and 2 more at my new Brooks Park Community Garden. I will be blogging more about that later.

They are all smaller tomatoes: Sweet 100, Sun Gold, Yellow Pear and Sun Cherry. I have not had any luck with larger tomatoes. Just not enough sun in Ye Old San Francisco. I've also planted Lemon Cucumbers, Regular Old Cucumbers, Summer Squash, Zuccini, Strawberries, Lettuce, Blue Lake Beans, Peppers and Peas. Not much to do at this point but water and look for slugs and sow bugs.