Best Thing About Having a Garden: Gifts From the Heart
The best things about having a garden? Giving gifts like these to friends and family. 🙂
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Starting a Garden: How to Plan the Planting of Seeds and Transplants
When planning a zone-adaptable list, the only thing you need is to learn the date of the last frost in your area and adjust the planting times for each plant. Some plants thrive in cooler weather, while others require warmer soil for proper seed germination. …
Tips for Grilling Vegetables and a Recipe for Grilled Vegetable Vinaigrette
Grilled vegetables are best when kept simple – allowing their true flavors to burst through. They are especially nice when tossed with a light dressing just before serving, like the basic vinaigrette below. Grilled Vegetables Tips On the grill – keep it simple. Quick cooking over high heat. Just salt and pepper, and …
Garden Blog: Eggplant is in Full Bloom
Very happy girl this morning. Woke up to find all my Japanese eggplants are in full bloom.
Garden Blog: Growing Easter Egg II Radishes
Radishes Pulled up radishes this morning. I planted the Rainbow Radishes Easter Egg II (see link below). Or rather, my son planted them. His favorite things to plant in the garden are radishes, and who can blame him – with a super quick and almost …
Garden Blog: Garden Update! Cucumbers, Japanese Eggplant, Fushimi Peppers, and More
The weather is starting to blaze up in my zone – zone 9b. And when this happens, my watermelon, eggplant, tomatoes, and cucumbers always pick up and go into a true growth spurt. They love the warm weather. So do my peppers. This is the first …
Avocado Trees Producing Nicely
Update on the avocados we planted last year: they are very happy where they are in the garden. Here is a sneak peek at what they are doing so far. As you can see from the photos below, there are several different types of avocado …
Grapes Are In Full Production
Garden Update: Grapes One of our grape vines is in full production mode. Pretty happy about this, although it is right about that time the birds or squirrels get to them before we do. So far, they haven’t found our ‘secret grape stash’ among the …
Deep Frying Veggies with Amanda Cohen
Deep frying some vegetables from the garden today and don’t know where to start? Amanda Cohen gives a great deep fat cooked veggie primer via Vice and Munchies. She deep fries in three different ways: her vodka batter, a panko or crumb crust using the …
Organic Farming and the “Organic Checkoff”
While national marketing campaigns would certainly get the word out about organic foods, the idea of ‘organic checkoff’ programs doesn’t set well with organic farmers. What are checkoff programs? Think of the national campaigns for milk (Got Milk?), eggs (The Incredible Edible Egg), and beef …
