It looks like you have a lot going on in your backyard. I would love to be able to see exactly what you are growing. Do you have any close-ups to share?
@Kristen: Oh yeah, everything gets used. We've been tossing a chopped pepper into eggs, tomato sauce, salad dressing. I'm thinking of making my own harissa. Plus, you can freeze peppers whole.
Luxuriant, abundant. The gardens remind me a lot of the so-called dump heap gardens in old Mexico that Edgar Anderson wrote about in Plants, Life and Man (horrible title inflicted by the publisher on a wonderful book). In spite of the unpromising name, dump heap gardens turned out to be the opposite of dumps, crowded on purpose, almost self-maintaining, every plant useful (edible or herbal). After thirty years of ornamentals, might be time for a change.
I mean "time for a change" in my garden. Apples, blueberries, grapes, with squash plants running around below them. By the way, I love your name "gluttonforlife."
@Groundskeeper: Yes, there's something eminently satisfying about consuming the fruits of your own labor. The garden tends to start out neat and tidy and then runs rampant, as we begin squeezing in vining spinach here or more basil there, and suddenly it's this very lush, wild thing. And I love that I can eat—or at least enjoy smelling—every... we grow.
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