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cooking from the garden

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Rosalind Creasey has written a wonderful book with that title (Cooking From 
The Garden). She asked cooking and gardening 'gurus' all across the US to 
put up theme gardens for her book. Many of them are suspiciously 'sqft' , 
all are gorgeous. A wheat block for her baking theme garden by John Jeavons 
and Edwin Aspe Brown. An Heirloom garden by Jan Blum, Cajun garden by the 
owners of the Tabasco Plantation. Spa gardens (The Golden Door), edible 
flower gardens from Rose-Marie Nichols, etc..
This was the book that made me decide to go from standard rows to 'island 
plantings' in my yard. I have a lettuce island, (two actually), one is in 
the cinder block cold frame, a cabbage or cole crop island, a spice island, 
etc.
And, the reason I like to harvest our own produce isn't the cooking so 
much. I have always enjoyed munching on the raw bean or pea pod. Sampling a 
handful of raw okra or pocket full of cherry tomatoes. I like to bite into 
a bell pepper as much as most enjoy eating apples. I can't very well graze 
the grocery shelves anymore with the junk they're sprayed from seed to 
harvest. So I grow my own. My islands won't ever be as picture perfect as 
those in Rosalind's book, but they're productive and healthy to graze out 
of.
martha


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