Maybe I’m biased, but there’s just nothing like a sun-ripened tomato straight from the garden. I always try to keep a stash of summer tomato recipes around so I can take advantage of these delectable pieces of heaven. They’re so rich and full of flavor. And there are so many varieties to try. You’ve got the heirloom Brandywine Pink beefsteak tomato, with its sweet, old-fashioned flavor.
Smoothies are my secret weapon to sneak vegetables and fruits into my toddler’s (and husband’s) diet. With a few base ingredients, you can add just about any type of fruit or vegetable to make a smoothie. If you make as many smoothies as we do, you’ll want to grow your own smoothie ingredients.
Before I tell you the best potatoes for home fries, let’s talk about what you want to do with them. Different strokes of potatoes for different folks, but the kind I like in my home fries are white potatoes and sometimes sweet potatoes added for complexity of the flavor, especially if I’m adding in something savory like bacon, or cooking with the bacon grease I’ve saved on my countertop.
Before I started composting, I didn’t love the idea. I knew it would need to be far from the house to keep the gross out, like flies, smells, and rodents. And who is really going to bring their dinner out into the woods to compost?
Friends, let me tell you how much I love my juicer. Let me count the ways. I know a lot of gardeners are into juicing too and totally understand, but I recently upgraded my tried-and-true, cheap, centrifugal (blending) juicer in for a fancy masticating (crushing) juicer, and it’s been like a juice party in my kitchen every morning. This watermelon lemonade recipe is no exception!
You’ve heard the story. You can probably tell the story. You’re growing vegetables in window boxes, and they’re coming along just fine. You run out to do some errands one hot afternoon, and when you get home, every single vegetable and herb in your window box is a droopy, wilty mess.
When I first started composting, I felt a surge of angst any time I was about to throw something in the garbage. Can I compost it? Is this really garbage? At first, it only happened in the kitchen with food scraps and some paper products.
I’m a barefoot gardener, and until I posted a video online of my daughter and me in the garden picking veggies for dinner, I never considered any issues with that. I prefer to be barefoot when outside as much as possible, so what could be wrong with going into the garden barefoot?
I’m going to say right up front that when I first came across the concept of no-dig gardening, I had visions of skipping through the meadow sprinkling seeds like fairy dust, while magic pixies followed behind with perfect drops of water for each seed. By the time imaginary me had reached the end of the field, flowers, vegetables, fruits, and herbs were all in full bloom behind me.
In the northeast where I live, there are about 4-5 months of actual gardening, and 7-8 months of planning. I like to plan a garden that is partially in-ground and also a bit above ground in containers, especially for annual herbs so that I can have them close to the house.
