by Miriam Rubin | Nov 18, 2012 | Miriam's Garden
Lately I’ve been on a squash kick. Blue Hubbard has become one of my favorites. Maybe because it’s so odd and lumpy looking and some get huge. Here is one, sort of medium sized. Kind of a crazy looking squash. My neighbor brought me two more today that a...
by Miriam Rubin | Nov 13, 2012 | Miriam's Garden
It’s chilly today, bright part of the day but night comes so much faster. I guess it must be late fall. Which always has me thinking, soup. Today, I made Split Pea and Vegetable Soup with a meaty ham hock. I added ribbons of late-planted baby chard from the...
by Miriam Rubin | Apr 28, 2011 | Miriam's Garden
We are thrilled that the weather has finally changed. It’s gone from cold to hot, from rainy to not-rainy, but thankfully not dry. Tonight it’s supposed to get chilly, which is good for all manner of growing things, and the lilacs, which perfume our world....
by Miriam Rubin | Apr 10, 2011 | Miriam's Garden
Spring finally made it to our hill, in the form of 80+degree weather that is almost strange. David tilled the garden several times over, dug up, with a digging tool, the old manure from the goat barn and spread it in the garden. So we’re ready and fertile. Well...
by Miriam Rubin | Mar 31, 2011 | Miriam's Garden
Lisa Cherkasky is my good friend and a most talented food stylist. She and I met when we worked together as the fish cooks at a tony Washington, DC restaurant. She emailed me one day, asking for Chioggia beets. I explained that there was nothing growing in the garden...
by Miriam Rubin | Mar 28, 2011 | Miriam's Garden
The frogs are once again croaking in our pond. They’re called Wood Frogs, named, I believe, because they live most of the time in the woods. They search out water in which to breed, often shallow ponds, known as vernal ponds. In our yard, they breed in the deep...
