This weekend, Mrs. Eats and I hit up our local Farmer’s Market and came away with a veritable s-load of fantastically fresh goodies. We bought berries for a week, fixings for a giant party salad and our absolute favorite, the hot BBQ almonds and orange-honey almonds from the vendor we affectionately call “Nut Guy.” Summer is here and her bounty is ripe. Don’t miss out on the fresh melons, tomatoes, cherries, peaches, plums, pluots, flora, fauna, fruita, fangora, etc. Click here for a list of markets in your area (we’re pretty partial to the Saturday CC Mall Market and the Tuesday Fremont Park Market, but feel free to explore and find out for yourself who has the freshest white freestone hybrid seedless waterpeachplums).
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Sunday mornings under the freeway is a family tradition. 8th and U is a virtual sea of people, fruit and flowers.
posted 7/09/07 at 12:46 pm #
Hey, I still have a ton of vanilla beans if you want to drop by and grab some!
posted 7/09/07 at 1:36 pm #
I highly recommend growing your own. There is nothing more satisfying than hitting the backyard for fresh herbs, tomatoes, cherries, apricots, squash, blackberries, etc. We have a bit of everything and it is the freshest.
posted 7/09/07 at 2:54 pm #
Do you have any recommendations on where to start gardening-wise? We have two lemon trees that have yet to bear fruit, but we are hopeful. Both our tomato and pepper plants are starting to be productive, so that’s encouraging. Does anyone have helpful hints on starting a raised bed garden?
posted 7/09/07 at 9:03 pm #
My husband and I built 5 raised beds in our backyard using concrete chunks left from jackhammering up a patio. We extended the height of the unusued lawn sprinklers and made them into drip lines. This works really well to conserve water and control where it goes. Then we just started planting things and kept track of what did well. That and obsessively reading seed catalogs!
posted 7/10/07 at 12:05 pm #
Dig deep. With a raised bed it’s easier, but deeper digging (French intensive) gives roots lots of room to go crazy and you get great yields. Zucchini is a good place to start, easy to grow, produce like crazy–plus you can eat the blossoms too!
Drip systems are easy and fun to use: I have capped off my front yard’s sprinkler system entirely and just have drippers running to the front yard plants (ripped out all the grass.) Water metering is coming–being able to make good use of water will be a serious economic consideration very shortly. They’re also a lot cheaper than a sprinkler system to install!
posted 7/10/07 at 12:52 pm #
I do fill my raised beds with good quality soil to start. I order some organic soil from Hasties and then each year continue to add organic fertilizers from Emigh to assist in keeping the soil productive. We also put some earth worms in each bed as well as release ladybugs/preying mantis’ a couple of times per year. The citrus trees need a good fertilizer twice a year. Whitney Farms makes a nice one that is easy to apply and non toxic. Have to agree with wburg as the squash family can make you feel like you have a very green thumb… it can just take up some space in your raised beds. Strawberries are fun, but labor intensive for what they produce… same with our corn stalks. Good luck - it will be worth the efforts in the end.
posted 7/10/07 at 5:03 pm #
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