Gardening Out Loud
Gardening Out Loud
Episode 19: Savouring summer
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Episode 19: Savouring summer

Plus saving seeds, squirrelly squirrels, and tropical-tasting ground cherries
A bumblebee hangs upside down underneath a pink cosmo flower that is just about to unfurl.

In this episode . . .

In praise of Canada goldenrod. Strategies for savouring summer. A magical harvest dinner. Saving cosmos, nasturtium, and calendula seeds. My squirrels love honeynut squash. A taste of the tropics with ground cherries.


Otherwise this week, I’m . . .

Savouring: The variety of pollinator life in the yard, especially on the Canada goldenrod and the asters.

Tending: Watering, deadheading flowers, starting to save seeds.

Harvesting: Pole beans, mouse melons, tomatoes, tulsi, Genovese basil, zinnias, dahlias, and other cut flowers.

Making: Labour Day weekend is traditionally a canning weekend for me. I made a lot of salsa (I use the recipe from the wonderful Batch cookbook, which I adore) and pizza sauce (from the Bernadin recipe book). Right now, given what’s in the garden, I’m eating a lot of salad that’s just tomatoes, sliced beans, basil, cucumbers, a little olive oil and balsamic, and some feta cheese if I have it.

A white hand holds the paper husky attached to a yellow ground cherry against a blurred green background.
Ground cherry! (Could be a little riper.)

Cross-pollination

Check out the Hidden Brain episodes on savouring (part one and part two).


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Bye from my harvest table in the garden!

On a lawn surrounded by garden sits a fully set table with a coral coloured table cloth. On it, the table is set for formal dining, with a large floral centerpiece and a cheeseboard off to one side.

Until next week!
Jen

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Gardening Out Loud
Gardening Out Loud
Gardening Out Loud is a series of weekly audio love letters to, and conversations with, a little patch of soil. This isn’t an instructional podcast, but an experiential one: listen in for my reflections and observations as I experiment with sonic chronicles of the 2023 growing season. Grow along with me, in your imagination or in your own space, as I cultivate food and flowers, and soak up the beauty of this tiny urban refuge. Gardening Out Loud is restorative radio to help us all slow down, get grounded, and make a bit of space for connection and natural wonder.