So.....in my last post I shared a delicious pasta dish that had the wonderful flavors of lemon and mint, and the "ever-present" summer vegetable....zucchini. Check that recipe out here.
Today....zucchini again! But, this time, folded into a yummy pound cake with a rich and delicious Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting!! Everybody needs a little zucchini and spice in their life, don't you think?
Zucchini here, zucchini there, I've got zucchini everywhere!! That seems to be the usual cry of gardeners each summer......well, except for this gardener. I remember one of the first spring seasons, after we had moved into the home we live in presently. I really wanted to have a garden even though, as I've mentioned before, this Italian hadn't grown up working in one of her own.....sad, but true!
So, after hearing my brother-in-law talk about this book he'd been reading on "square foot gardening", I decided to try it out myself. After all.....the amount of produce one can expect to harvest from this type of garden is really pretty amazing!
I read and read, planned and planned, had a small area tilled by a friend, set out my 12"x12" markers, bought seeds and some baby plants, and got ready to sow! I was very excited, thinking about all the wonderful vegetables my family would be eating all summer long...... grown, nurtured, and harvested with my own little hands!
