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In the middle of writing this month’s newsletter, I was struck with hunger and a craving for soup.  Could it be that I’ve been subsisting on gingerbread cookies all morning (made fresh last night)?  They are a complete protein, aren’t they? 

Anywho – the need to eat right away was overshadowed by the idea of having something really nice to eat that could be assembled with minimal time.  I cracked open my handy dandy binder of torn out recipes from magazines and leafed through to find something that used chickpeas and diced tomatoes – because that’s what’s in the fridge.  I fell upon a …

Returning from any vacation is always a little bittersweet.  While there is an excitement to be home again, with all the creature comforts, there is the sadness of leaving behind the romantic notion of foreign travel.  With gardeners, there is also a fear in the back of the head that makes us worry whether our plants will be alive when we come back.  Ironically, I have found that most of my plants do better when I’m not around.

Yes, it’s true – with the help of automatic irrigation, my zucchini plant has done better in the two weeks I’ve been …

It’s hard to think that anything bad can come from having too many tomatoes around.  They sit so beautifully on my kitchen counter in an Italian ceramic bowl, their colors ranging from bright striped green to bright yellow to golden orange to brilliant red.  Yet one thing tarnishes their image.  Fruit flies.  They seem to come from nowhere, and appear to have nowhere else to go and no other target than my tomatoes.  Naturally, I’d much rather be out in the garden than standing around in my kitchen with a fly swatter, so with a little research and …