Beyond Basic Salad Recipes: 5 Lettuce Recipes That’ll Bowl You Over
Oh boy, let me tell you about my lettuce addiction. It's real, folks. There I was, one crisp spring morning at the farmer's market, minding my own business, when suddenly …
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Red Revolution: The Lettuce Smoothie That’ll Make You Go Bananas
You know how it goes - you plant a few lettuce seeds, blink, and suddenly your garden looks like a leafy green explosion. That's exactly what happened with my Red …
Red Lettuce Smoothie with Bananas
I love experimenting with unexpected ingredient combinations, and I also grow a ton of lettuce. That's how I came up with this lettuce smoothie, a unique blend that's become a …
Bomb-Sniffing Spinach, Nickel-Mining Cabbage, and Vegetable Lambs
While plants – the common garden variety, the stuff of everybody’s backyards – are universally loved, we’ve also got a soft spot for the outlandish. …
7 Perennial Vegetables You Can Plant and Harvest Forever
The first time I planted an herb garden and saw my chives, sage, and thyme grow back in the second year, I jumped to wondering what other kinds of herbs …
Unexpected But Edible: 10 Weird Things You Can Actually Eat From Your Garden
As a kid, I played this game with my friend where we’d blindfold each other and take random food or condiments from the fridge and get the other person to …
5 of the Quickest Vegetables to Grow All Year Round
I admit that subtitle is a bit misleading. No matter how much of a hurry you might be in, the magic of nature takes time. So “hurry” is pretty relative …
Can You Freeze Spinach and For How Long?
Because spinach is so easy to grow, I almost always end up with way more than I can eat, no matter how many recipes I have. What to do with …
What to Plant in September in USDA Zones 7-8
Ah, September in USDA zones 7-8 - a time when most folks are packing away their gardening gloves and dreaming of pumpkin spice everything. But hold onto your sun hats, …
What to Plant in September in USDA Zones 4-6
Even though Jack Frost might be peeking around the corner in our neck of the woods, September can still be a surprisingly fruitful month for planting. Sure, it's a bit …
