Enjoying all my Hard Work
When I read this quote in a Better Homes and Gardens magazine a while back I loved it. It’s so true that home canned tomatoes are like opening up a jar of summer. Yesterday I cracked open 6 pints of tomato sauce and diced tomatoes to make some sauce. All these wonderful tomatoey meals in the winter make all the hard work growing and canning tomatoes worth it!
I think if I could only preserve one thing from the garden to eat in the winter I’d choose tomatoes.
What would you choose?
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All Things Red
I saved red for last because I must admit, I don’t like red in the garden, at least red flowers. I don’t think there’s a red bloom anywhere in my gardens. The one lone red flower in the collage below is at Stan Hywet in Akron.
Red vegetables on the other hand are wonderful. I love having a garden full of big red tomatoes, apples and radishes, shiny red peppers and juicy red strawberries. When it comes to vegetables red is a tasty color!
What’s your favorite red fruit or vegetable?
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All Things Yellow
Yellow is a popular color in the garden. Personally, I prefer other colors, I have a few wild rudbeckias in the garden and a few yellow lilies and you you can’t deny the happiness they bring to their little corner of the garden. Goldenrod in the late summer and fall is as pretty as any cultivated flower and the bright yellow maple leaves in the fall are beautiful. You still won’t find me buying lots of yellow blooms for the garden.
Yellow tomatoes on the other hand are a completely different story! You really can’t beat the tastiness of a yellow tomato for eating!
What’s your favorite yellow flower? A humble native like goldenrod or black eyed susans or something more cultivated?
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All Things Purple
When I started gardening I wanted a lot of white blooms in the garden. All of the things I planted that first ended up blooming purple instead. I don’t mind now, it seems like all these attract so many beneficial insects.
I think my favorite purple flower is the liatris, I love the tall structure they have. They’re so interesting.
Although coming in a close second are petunias. I love hanging baskets filled with white and purple petunias.
What’s your favorite purple flower?
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I Can Hardly Contain Myself
I’m so excited for February 12, 2010 to come. Why? Because that’s when the winter Olympics officially begin. Mr Chiots and I are HUGE winter Olympics fans. When I say huge I’m not kidding. We work extra hard in the weeks coming up to them so we can spend 24/7 making sure we don’t miss any Olympic action. We love them so much we considered attending these Olympic games since they were in Canada. Did you notice my new countdown clock to the right?
I’ll be cheering for team USA of course. During the summer games I cheer on all the Colombian athletes as well, but there aren’t any in the winter Olympics. I suppose if I were good at any winter sports I could be on team Colombia.
Mr Chiots and I don’t have cable TV, but we’re getting it for the month of Feb so we can enjoy every part of the 2010 winter Olympics. We should have more than enough to watch, I read there’s going to be over 3600 hours of coverage on various channels and on the internet. Of course we’ll have the laptop in the living room to look up schedules, results, other information and to keep an eye on the medal counts. Hopefully I’ll find time to post here on the blog, although you’re getting a early warning, it may be quiet around here from Feb 12-28.
Are you a fan of the winter Olympics? Which team will you be cheering for?
