BONUS Recipe—Make Fresh Salsa with Your Home-Grown Tomatoes!
When you have fresh ripe tomatoes flowing from your garden day after day, what’s better than making a fresh tomato salsa?!
I love the fresh ingredients of good salsa. I don't …
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Storing Food from Your Freedom Garden
The goal of a Freedom Garden is to be able to store and share the food you’re growing, so getting good at storing and preserving your fruits and veggies should …
Crop Rotation Basics for a Freedom Garden
If you have a small backyard plot for your Freedom Garden, or a porch garden, or a space where you grow herbs beside your kitchen window, you might wonder what …
Creating a Greenhouse Freedom Garden
Not sure if you’re ready to take on a project like a greenhouse? Most people aren’t. You can always make it step two in your Freedom Garden. …
Dealing with Eggplant Diseases
Like all food crops, eggplant is susceptible to various fungal diseases. Your best weapons against these are best planting practices, which help prevent disease in the first place. …
Giants Passing
Redwoods: they’re the state tree of California and the whole world knows it. However, not many people, even Californians, live within a few feet of one. For 26 years I …
10 Spring Companion Planting Ideas
Oh! Spring! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Actually, no. I won't scare you off with bad takes on a sonnet. I will, however, share with …
When to Pick Bell Peppers
Bell peppers don't get the press they deserve. These fruits (yes, they are technically fruits) are one of the most commonly grown crops in the world. And they come in …
Planning Out Bountiful Raised Beds
If there's one thing I love to do in a deep February New England winter, it's planning out my vegetable garden. Last year it was a whole new ballgame because …
Roasted Bell Pepper Salad
Roasting really brings out the flavor of vegetables, and bell peppers are no exception. They just taste so much better when they’ve been roasted than they do if I grab …
