Recent content by Gary Knowels

I'm on summer break now, let's get together!

I don't normally make 100% white bread, but the MIL is in town and she prefers it to any amount of whole grain. These are 75% Cairnspring Glacier Peak and 25% Cairnspring Sequoia and 81% hydration.

Chinese style ground chicken lettuce cups and watermelon. Optima butter lettuce from the garden is perfect for this dish.

My favorite lettuce to grow is italienischer. It has a nice taste and texture, tolerates a lot of conditions, and gets BIG

Lazy leftover brunch frittata: ham, asparagus, onion, eggs, lebneh, and parm mixed up and chucked in and 8x8" pyrex.

Lunch today from Tho Tuong, a Vietnamese BBQ joint. The combo lunch: BBQ pork, roast pork, and roast duck with dipping sauce, broken rice, and pickled veg.

These Sandhill Cranes Have Adopted a Canada Gosling, and Birders Have Flocked to Watch the Strange Family https://share.google/XRVkkOuNnP00zW6mU

Carrots and leafy greens can still go in too, depending on where you are and where you put them. I like to tuck summer lettuce in the shadows of my pole beans, but I'm also in Puget Sound lowlands

Summer squash, cucumber, green beans

I like arugula and have grown it, but it tends to bolt quickly in my hands but Tuscan kale and collards will go a year without bolting and handle the winter exposed here just fine

I love and grow them both!

The worst. Last summer they were eating my tomatoes off the vine as they ripened. I got several of them in snap traps by baiting with tomato. That stopped the problem. I still bait traps and will get one from time to time in the alley, I don't have any dens on my property, but there are some...

The collard greens are going crazy, picked this pile off of 3 plants I made the mistake a couple years ago of buying collard greens at the Proctor farmer's market...$8/bunch, this would have been 7-8 bunches. Costs me just a few bucks to harvest this amount several times.

Diet food, still pretty tasty. Roasted sweet potato, baked chicken thighs, braised collards

While I have a much smaller and younger plot, things are good here too. My raspberries are having their best year yet, but were moved 3 years ago so that's to be expected. My blueberries are having a phenomenal year as well, but none are ripe yet.