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| 07/04/2008: "Yum"
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For lunch today we had baby Yukon Gold potatoes sauteed with Walla Walla sweet onions and sugar snap peas-- all from the new community garden plot! The early tomatoes are beginning to ripen already, which is great: much faster results than we get from the partially-shaded Swamp Shack garden. At this rate we'll have a good three to four-month season for vine-ripened, homegrown tomatoes. Yowza!
This rocks-- it's a lot of work, but worth it on so many levels. I still refuse to grow corn, since it's a high-maintenance crop that requires lots of space per unit of yield. Besides, when fresh corn is in season it can be bought for a song at our numerous farmers' markets and roadside stands -- far as I'm concerned, local peak-season corn on the cob is the only kind worth its salt and butter -- and when it's really good, just a couple minutes' boiling is plenty. All you need to do is heat it up enough to melt the butter... mmmm.
But corn is still in the mid-to-late summer future. Lots of other great stuff on the plate already, and I'm looking forward to putting next weekend's flute show in the rearview mirror in order to concentrate more fully on summer's bounty. See y'all again tomorrow! --r.
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