Let’s Talk Tomatoes

Tomato plants and the Oregon coast are not easy friends. Our coastal region has so many challenges for tomato plants to overcome–cooler days and nights, a shorter growing season, less daytime heat to encourage ripening, summer mist and rain–sometimes it can feel like a huge effort to grow a tomato plant all for the thrill … More Let’s Talk Tomatoes

Oh Magical Fruit!

Beans: fruit or vegetable? Technically beans are a fruit, because they carry their seeds on the inside of their skin. (It’s more involved than that, but that’s basically the gist of it.) Perhaps it’s because beans are mostly eaten in savory recipes that they are usually grouped with vegetables, along side other ‘fruits’ like tomatoes … More Oh Magical Fruit!