(Re) Chic

I love having a garden plot. I think its one of the best things I've done since moving back to Columbus. However, it does have its drawbacks. This is what the extent of my zucchini gardening was before my garden plot:  I still had the benefit of growing delicious zucchini, it was right on my front step where I could check it everyday and the supply was limited by the plant size, which was in turn limited by the pot size (this pot was rather large but still did not provide unlimited zucchini).   Now lets turn to my current garden plot.  Since my zucchini started ripening a few weeks ago I have harvested 4 zucchini with another that's ready to be picked all at least a foot long!  I'm up to my eyeballs in zucchini!  I've been trying to pick them when they're smaller but they grow so fast that they're huge by the time I realize they're there!  (Due to my work schedule I haven't been making it to my plot everyday).   So what do you ...

While I was staying with my wonderfully supportive boyfriend who was letting me borrow his car to get back and forth to work (I now have my own set of wheels again...yay!) he and I went for a walk around his neighborhood.   We came across what had once surely been a magnificent community garden complete with a children's garden, raspberry bushes, and herbs. But it was no longer the beauty it once had been.   You could hardly see the vegetables for the weeds and the grass and you could tell that no one had been taking care of it recently.   So this brings me to a frustrating question: should we really create community gardens?  I know you're all screaming "yes! Yes! of course we should!" but this is not the first garden I have seen get neglected by its creators.  Another baby community garden in Wilmington was overlooked almost completely this season, some of the beds were not even planted! Of course we all know the pros of community g...

Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!  So in order to celebrate I made chocolate chip cookies (of course).  But of course we couldn't just make any chocolate chip cookies we made chocolate chip cookies garden style...with zucchini!   I got the recipe from Right@Home and personally I think they're delicious!   All it takes is the following ingredients:  2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 sticks of butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla (which I forgot...oops) 2 eggs 2 cups shredded zucchini (this took one medium sized zucchini from the Farmers' Market) 1 cup old-fashioned oats 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips And of course you could always add chopped walnuts I just didn't because I'm sharing them with my coworkers.   I added more chocolate chips because they're CHOCOLATE CHIP cookies so obviously they should have more than just a few chips.   I had to add more flour because the first batch...