last night after not having eaten all day, i made an incapacitatiinlg large and delicious veggie sandwich:

1 loaf essential pugliese bread for bread, 1 bulb fennel sauteed with 1 head fresh garlic for filling, quarter cup of sundried tomatoes in oil for spreading, romano cheese for sprinkling, lettuce and red russian kale from garden for crunching, mustard and mayo, salt and pepper.

result: awesome sandwich twice the size of my face that it took me half an hour to eat and made me moan in pain for a few hours afterwards. bonus points for making it all out of dumpstered or home grown ingredients, i think. maybe minus points for making ridiculous dumpster sandwiches without alex present.

last year's modest garden has since ballooned to double it's previous size, due to the massive influx of free awesome compost from some of our housies' work. lots of work from me and annie (and some help from the rest of the house) was also required.

new layout, scale is about 30 feet x 20 feet:


some of the actual garden (unfortunately cropped, as i couldn't get gimp to merge photos correctly):


chard, somewhat recuperated from their transplanting last week:


my weird cubic lattice tomato growth structure that houses 12 of our 33 tomato plants:


king corn's ethanol preserve, or: advances in that art of ironic gardening:


upside-down tomato plants:


fire escape pea and raspberry trellis:

non food related but cool: friend jeffery steuben made this sweet toilet bowl hack to wash your hands and reuse the water to fill up the bowl again. nice design avoids gross greywwater in holding tank issue and routes the water straight to the bowl.