After a good day's work in the giant garden, I'm ready for a giant dinner. This sauce is just as happy on steak as it is on burgers or grilled mushrooms. Challenge me to grow the biggest, heaviest, best-tasting watermelon in the fastest time, and I'm hooked. My daughters challenged me to do just that, spouting something about women being from Venus and men from Mars. You're on, I told them.
Guys love competition.
Even if they say they're not interested, you can get most guys to grow stuff just by challenging them. My daughters' challenge resulted in our giant garden, a fantasy-land of enormous plants. Like cooking great food, growing a giant garden starts with great ingredients. You need healthy soil, plenty of fertilizer and water to nourish it, and of course the very best seeds. We've had so much fun in our own giant garden that I asked my friends at Forni Brown to develop Giant Garden seeds for NapaStyle, a mix of Jubilee Watermelons that can swell up to 40 pounds, Big Moon Pumpkins that weigh more than me, and Mammoth Russian Sunflowers that'll stretch six feet into the air, all of which are very easy to plant and grow.