growing tomatoes indoors

Indoor Garden Fall Update

by StefanieVegetables A-Z October 10, 2021October 12, 20217 Comments

It’s October in the Rockies and the leaves have gone gold and are about to drop. The kids are thinking about trick-or-treating, football is on tv…and anything we’ve been trying to grow outside is absolute toast. Dead. Done. Over.

The mornings are brisk now with frost on the windshields. Snow is starting to creep down and settle in to more than just the tops of the mountains. Around our little ski town, everyone is getting ready for the lifts to start turning.

So, obviously, this is a most pleasant time to appreciate one’s indoor garden…

Spring Indoor Garden Update. Seems like We’re Settling into Quarterly Garden Updates Now…

by StefanieVegetables A-Z June 17, 2021June 18, 20212 Comments

I know it’s been a while, but hey, It’s June in the Rockies and it’s beautiful outside! I am too busy gardening outdoors, like all of the “normal” gardeners who garden outside, to be bothered much with my indoor garden! And heck, I’ve been letting it go on auto-pilot for almost 6 months, so why stop now?

But here’s an update anyway, to keep you following along. Currently in our little indoor, bathroom-garden we are growing…

In celebration of Tomatoes: The Vegetarian BLT, or, the MLT

by Stefanietomatoes, Vegetables A-Z, vegetarian recipes May 28, 2020March 10, 20222 Comments

When I was young, my family would drive from Colorado all the way to New Jersey every few years to see my Grandparents and go “down the shore”. We loved the seashore. The red sun setting over the bay, the clatter of the seagulls in the morning, the smell of the grass on the dunes, the feel of my dad’s skin – too coated with suntan lotion to hold on to – as he chucked me into the waves. I remember it all so vividly because I was young. And still to this day, I remember the taste of the New Jersey roadside-stand tomatoes as being like nothing else. You could just chomp into them like a squishy, messy apple. To me, that is the taste of summertime, of vacation, and of my youth.