http://growingappetite.com Grow it. Eat it. Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:08:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It must be getting close because it is seed catalog season in a HUGE WAY! All of us here at GA have received dozens of catalogs from businesses selling their seeds, bulbs and gardening supplies. And it's got me pumped up for spring! Over the last couple weekends, I've been clearing out ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/121 There is something satisfying about harvesting in winter. Like I've succeeding in feeding myself year round. With the abundance of seed catalogs arriving and my desire to get the garden started its nice to still be eating from last years plantings. I pulled more carrots today, they have a nice sweetness ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/114 The hardest part about planting garlic is picking a place to put in next years garlic, oh and also finding a day that its not pouring down rain and not too cold that you can stand to be outside planting. Garlic is a bulb and is planted in the fall. ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/113 There was an initial fear when planting the snack jack pumpkins that they would take up far to much room and by the sounds of it I would have plenty of little pumpkins to make into soup or pie or ravioli or whatever my little pumpkin heart desired. I found a ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/112 Today I planted some fall vegetables. All except the carrots are the same spring variety's I planted earlier this year. I did plant two types of spinach earlier in the year but today I just went for the 45 day variety. Hoping to get it in and ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/111 This is a yummy, yet challenging point of the gardening season. Challenging because I can only eat so much...:) There is more produce then one can eat alone. Besides even the freshest of beans or in my case yellow squash, there comes a time when you have just eaten so ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/110 You all know how much I am in love with tomatoes. In reality, I think of tomatoes as the centerpoint of my garden patch, and everything else as secondary to them. As much as I love the herbs, and flowers and lovely lettuces, they are the all accessories to ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/109 While outside in the garden for even more weeding today I noticed the first Snack Jack pumpkin. These are the same ones I didn't know how I would fit them in earlier this year. I did and here is a picture of the very first one. It's about the size of ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/108 The weather has been perfect!!! Not for me, but for the garden. Its been quite rainy and humid but bright, not dark and rainy. A few days away and look at all the butterstick squash I found last night when I went to pull lettuce for a salad. Needless to say, ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/107 Nasturtiums are one of those flowers that I never really knew anything about until I moved to the Pacific Northwest. They grow beautifully, and rapidly! In addition to their speedy growth, and obvious nice flowers, it turns out that they are a virtual magnet for aphids. As a result, they've become ... http://growingappetite.com/archives/106