Recipe of the Month:
It's Pickle time!

Try these deliciously unusual sweet and sour Ginger-Lime Cucumber Chips

When the Time Is Ripe

The information in guest author Alice Formiga's article Harvesting Vegetables for Best Flavor will help you pick your vegetables when they are at their best.

Summer harvest

In the Trial Garden

As of early August, the late planting of six different varieties of pole beans we are evaluating is bearing heavily. So far, we really love a combination of our heirloom purple pod pole and another old time favorite," rattlesnake" beans ,whose tender pods have a dark green background overlaid with purple markings. Renee used these beans to make her green bean pâté for lunch almost every day last week! Our round zucchini trial is bearing heavily too, with cultivars from France, Italy, and the United States. We really enjoy them hollowed out, then stuffed and baked with ground lamb and rice flavored with mint, garlic and basil. Our second planting of new dwarf sunflower and cosmos varieties are really strutting their stuff and Renee and trial manager Lindsay are amazed at the excellent flavor of the container mint from our favorite Italian suppliers -- the first mint from seed whose quality we've found uniform enough to consider adding to our line.

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