Pauline's Lucky Market Garden

Our dill crop is ready for market and available now.  Add it to your salad.  Sprinkle it on cooked baby carrots.  Used in risoto with peas & mint...   amazing!  Get a whole bunch & make dill pesto to enjoy with crusty fresh bread.  Go to our tips & recipes page & scroll down to recipe 4.  

Tender little baby bok choy The warm temperatures of spring are well settled in.  Bean plants are about to start flowering, cucumber plants are 12 inches high getting ready to sprawl.  One of the plantings of spring mix bolted prematurely when we had that week of temps hitting 90 degrees but the next planting is coming along & could do well especially if we would get some showers.  There are pretty yellow wild flowers in bloom everywhere & the baby bok choy already looks good enough to eat!!

Just added a really yummy recipe using rosemary - the best and easiest chicken ever! Delicious and full of rosemary, garlic, and lemon flavor. Everyone will be coming back for more. See our "Tips and Recipes from the Farm" page, and scroll down to Recipe 3.

Try my pie recipe using the Musca squash or West Indies Pumpkin.  It's a real treat anytime and can be made from fresh or frozen cooked puree.  The recipe is posted in the tips and recipes page of my blog.  Scroll down to Recipe 2. 

I am beginning to add recipes to my blog.  "Recipe 1"  is a fantastic salad dressing & works well with meyer lemons in place of conventional lemons.  This dressing goes well on any salad and is especially good with my farm spring mix.  It's posted in the  tips and recipe page. 

This fall's harvest is the best we have grown so far!  Enjoy our open polinated & heirloom winter squashes.  We have Green Kabocha, Musca, & West Indies Pumpkin (commonly called Calabasa).  All three store well & taste super!  Hot roasted squash on a cold winter night...it's SO good!  Read our cooking tips on our "Tips & farm recipes" page.

NOVEMBER IS NICE!!!   The weather is just so great for working outdoors!  And plants love it too!  Well some of the veggies, the cukes, zukes & winter squash are showing signs of stress from a few cold evenings in the upper 40's and  that's to be expected, but the little collard and Russian kale plants are starting to take off, the first lettuces are finally  looking happy & the  broccoli that struggled after being transplanted in the september heat is now knee high! As for my latest harvest news, I have begun bringing baby arugula to my retail customers (go get your bag!)  and it won't be long before the spring mix that everyone is craving is ready (expect it around Thanksgiving although there may be a few early bags out there as early as next week).  With Thanksgiving just a few weeks away I am checking my bean plants often.  We  should have be...