Satrina0's Kitchen garden

Garden Type: Kitchen | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Loam

30 Oct 2009
Lemon Verbena Syrup; Bunny Kitchen garden , Lemon Verbena Consumed, Strawberry 'Quinault' Consumed, and Lemon Verbena Dying Down
The lemon verbena was pretty much taken out by frost, but I had harvested most of the plant a few days earlier and made lemon verbena syrup. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been having a little as a sweetener in tea, or in sparkling wine. Today I went out to check on things in the backya...
Cloudy 15°C / 59°F
23 Aug 2008
Approximate Dahlia 'David Howard' Flowering and Kitchen garden

Cloudy 14°C / 57°F
19 Aug 2008
To make room in the planter & consolidate herbs Sage 'Golden' Moved and Kitchen garden
I used leaves from this plant for fried sage earlier in the year. The leaves are much more broad than those of my normal culinary sage in the kitchen garden.
Sunny 16°C / 61°F
16 Aug 2008
Redder than in photos Dahlia 'Audrey Grace' Flowering and Kitchen garden

Sunny 16°C / 61°F
14 Aug 2008
First one got munched... ancillary blooms are perfect 1 Dahlia 'Korb Yellow Hy-light' Flowering and Kitchen garden

Sunny 16°C / 61°F
12 Aug 2008
Lettuce in August! 2 1 Kitchen garden
I can think of two good things about this eerily cold summer: 1) the sweet peas are seven feet high and abundant, and 2) we are harvesting lettuce in August. Despite the fact that some of this lettuce has been in the ground since last winter, it is completely bitter-free, a bit tougher than IR...
Cloudy 17°C / 63°F
11 Aug 2008
Fully open today Dahlia 'Nutley Sunrise' Flowering and Kitchen garden

Cloudy 17°C / 63°F