09/18/2022
Delicious organic espalier apples and vine ripened tomatoes from our pottager gardens at Bluestone Manor, captured by the incomparable for my September Invite!
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La Storia ~
Perhaps it’s horticultural imprinting, but I really, really dig gardening.
The gardening thing, was handed down first, from my Italian born grandparents (on my mom’s side) and later from my father, who was 100 percent Swede.
Each had amazing vegetable gardens, or “gardoons”, as my dad called them, but they were frankly, backbreaking work.
We were all SO spoiled, growing up, feasting on homegrown tomatoes, string beans, corn, peppers, zucchini, lettuce and cucumbers.
Grandma Nettie, would can the surplus on her wood burning stove.
And we would eat well,
from her fabulous larder,
all fall and winter long.
I’ve include a long ago look at my Grandpa’s, Rainier Valley garden.
One, two & even three generations
after my grandpa Paul tilled the Seattle soil, so many in our family,
still take such pride in their gardens, big and small.
I fancy myself, as a more of a modern day urban farmer especially since acquiring a neighboring garden lot (Bluestone Gardens) with existing raised stone beds and dozens of mature trees and flower plantings, that I’m still, learning the names of.
It’s the 1st harvest in the new pottage garden, and it’s a pretty awesome. You best believe, I’m making notes for next year.
Remember, you reap what you sow.
Happy Sunday Friends!
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