Recipes Vegetables

Salsa Verde

Salsa Verde is a favorite in our house.  We put it on egg omelets (or omelettes for my French readers) in the morning, tacos for dinner and tortilla chips for a snack. Since we just talked about harvesting tomatillos this week, it is the perfect time to talk about making salsa verde. Ingredients: 8 -10 […]

Fruits Vegetables

Harvesting Tomatillos

While I originally grew purple tomatillo plants from seed from Ferry-Morse, I made the mistake of putting them in the ground before the last cold spell was over.  Since they did not survive, I went out and bought two starter green tomatillo plants which are hard to find in Pittsburgh. The starter plants did really […]

Blooms Vegetables

Growing and Harvesting Okra

I planted my okra a little later than usual in June.  This plant like lots of sun and warm weather.  In spite of the cool summer, I still got a fair amount.  While  I didn’t grow okra last year, I grew three okra plants the year before that and had so many okras that I […]