Diagonal dinner (halibut cheek with asparagus, garlic scapes, and fresh garden peas)

Diagonal dinner (halibut cheek with asparagus, garlic scapes, and fresh garden peas), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

In a hot pan with bacon grease, started before the fish went on, went minced shallot and sliced asparagus and garlic scapes. We put the fat asparagus stalk segments in first, to get more cooking time [...]

Posted by at 9:04pm on Monday, Jun 29th, 2009
Categories: comestibles, deliciousness, recipes, seasonal, spring
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Rototilling tips.

It appears that, if you’re rototilling a garden that’s gone to grass and blackberries for the past six years, watering prior to tilling makes it easier to remove the vegetation. It looks like a softer, wetter soil allows the tines to pull plants bodily out of the soil instead of chopping them up but [...]

Posted by at 12:33pm on Monday, Jun 29th, 2009
Categories: planting, tools
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