Delishytown

Cooking is fun. Eating is funner. I cook, photograph and write these recipes. Everything I post on this blog I make from scratch using fresh wholesome ingredients.. I've been cooking since I was a little kid. My recipes are based on trial and error, along with studying cookbooks, family recipes, blogs and cooking shows. Some of the veggies and herbs I use are grown in my garden. Yay sustainability! I'm working on making my yard into an edible landscape. It's really fun to go out in the garden and pick your veggies for dinner!

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Front Garden Edible Landscape Project

This is a big, beautiful vegetable and fruit garden I planted in my friend’s front yard. It’s a very sunny, west facing wall / fence. These photos were taken in the morning. This area gets full sun from about noon until sunset.  This part of the yard before was weedy trees and viney things. They cleared the area and built the raised beds, which came out great, really tall and sturdy. Then they went to a composting facility, bought a truckload of organic compost and soil, and worked for an afternoon shoveling it all in to fill the raised beds.

The next step was going to the nursery to pick out plants. We made a list of all the fruits and vegetables they like to eat.  It was fun plant shopping and we made several trips to various nurseries in the area, including making a stop at Tomatomania, a local Heirloom Tomato sale.

We planted grapefruit, orange and lemon trees, 2 kinds of grapes, 4 blueberry shrubs, lots of strawberries in pots, 8 varieties of Heirloom tomatoes, 3 types of peppers, zucchini squash, 2 kinds of corn, eggplant, cantaloupe, watermelon, pumpkins, cucumbers, green beans, peas, carrots, various lettuces, chard, beets, basil, tarragon, oregano, and cilantro. We also planted some flowers like marigolds, cosmos, lavender, hollyhocks and sunflowers to attract the bees. I added bagged, organic compost containing additional fertilizers, along with organic multi purpose granulated fertilizer, to every planting hole. 

It looks really beautiful and everything is thriving. This was a really fun project to work on! I can’t wait to do the next one.

Edible Landscapes for everyone!

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Baby Artichokes from our garden. We cooked these last night for dinner and they were delicious!

Baby Artichokes from our garden. We cooked these last night for dinner and they were delicious!

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Here’s some more Artichoke Porn. These are growing in our back garden. I love the way artichokes bloom. They’re so unusual and beautiful. 

Here’s some more Artichoke Porn. These are growing in our back garden. I love the way artichokes bloom. They’re so unusual and beautiful. 

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We grew potatoes! This was my harvest yesterday morning from the the front yard garden. This is my first time growing potatoes and I’ll tell you (in the geekiest way possible) how much fun it was to dig around in the dirt and find all of these potatoes. I planted these in mid January from sprouted organic russet potatoes. I decided to plant them in organic potting soil in a large fabric pot by the front door just to try it and see what happens. It worked! The plants never blossomed, (which is a sign that new potatoes have formed), but we still got potatoes. These were very easy to grow. Plant sprouted potatoes in well drained soil, hill up the soil around the plants when they get about 5 inches tall. Muulch with straw so the growing potatoes aren’t exposed to sunlight, which makes them turn green and toxic.

We grew potatoes!

This was my harvest yesterday morning from the the front yard garden. This is my first time growing potatoes and I’ll tell you (in the geekiest way possible) how much fun it was to dig around in the dirt and find all of these potatoes.

I planted these in mid January from sprouted organic russet potatoes. I decided to plant them in organic potting soil in a large fabric pot by the front door just to try it and see what happens. It worked! The plants never blossomed, (which is a sign that new potatoes have formed), but we still got potatoes.

These were very easy to grow. Plant sprouted potatoes in well drained soil, hill up the soil around the plants when they get about 5 inches tall. Muulch with straw so the growing potatoes aren’t exposed to sunlight, which makes them turn green and toxic.

Washing Salad Greens Mesclun Salad Greens Peas Baby Fennel Red Chard Thornless Blackberry Cherry Tomatoes Grating Italian Bread Crumbs

Today’s Harvest

I harvested these veggies from our garden this morning! Yum. I love not going to the store for fresh veggies! We made salad for lunch with peas, chopped apples, and Thousand Island dressing. It was damn tasty!

The tomatoes are from a half dead cherry tomato plant that kept producing tomatoes all winter! Even when it was in the low 40s at night! The leaves were terribly brown due to cold damage, so I finally took it out and replaced that spot with a trellis for the blackberries to climb on. This bowl is the last harvest from that plant. I’ll definitely grow that variety again! It’s very cold hardy. 

I’m going to make chard gratin based on a recipe from Alice Water’s Vegetable Cookbook with the chard, and top it with garlic breadcrumbs. 

Thanks for all the hearts and follows everybody. I truly appreciate it! 

Volunteer Artichoke w/ Red Lettuce Beets Kale Green Leaf Lettuce Red Ruffle Lettuce Strawberries Fennel seedlings

Edible Landscape Update

Lots of lettuces and greens are coming up in the garden. I need to transplant and share some of these because they’re growing so close together. 

The top photo is of a volunteer artichoke plant. Artichokes are sprouting up all over my garden because I let them go to seed last summer. Who would have thought it would be so simple to grow artichokes from seed? I’m going to pot some of these up to give to my sister and some neighbors. I hate wasting anything, especially good plants!

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