September is here and the tomato harvest is ON. This year I only grew one tomato plant, but it just keeps cranking out big ripe tomatoes! A friend gave me a bunch of heirloom tomatoes, too. I’ll be making my favorite salsa today:
Pico de Gallo:
chopped fresh tomatoes
chopped onion
chopped cilantro
chopped jalapeno (and serano, if you like it hot)
lime juice and salt
Maybe the super hot summer made for a bumper crop this year!
With the destruction they cause and how generally yucky they are, I would argue that aphids are certainly not our friends in the garden. Especially if you grow anything in the brassica group of vegetables. Aphids are tiny insects that proliferate quickly and suck liquids out of the leaves of plants. They exude a sugary […]
I recently visited the gardens at Temple Square and the LDS Church Office Building Plaza in downtown Salt Lake City. The garden beds are bursting with amazing displays of annuals. The color combinations are fantastic and I had to sit down often because the beauty made me dizzy.I am a big fan of perennials (plants […]
Tax Day is a great day to talk about money plant – Lunaria annua. This biennial brassica will reseed itself in dry shady places and grows well in Utah. It flowers in May and produces tall stalks with attractive purple or white flowers. Later in the summer the seed pods look like papery coins. Money […]
