With summer officially here, the stone fruit season is now seriously underway. Apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, and all the hybrids in between, are dropping off trees and showing up in markets. Gobble them up now, they don’t last long!
Continue reading Stone Fruit Oven Pancake
There is a reason most supermarket strawberries don’t taste all that great. They aren’t ripe when they are picked. Fix that problem by growing your own!
Continue reading Strawberry (Fragaria ananassa)
Every so often I manage to squirrel away some of our berry harvests when little boys (or the Old Man) aren’t looking. I want to make sure my little treasure trove will be safely tucked away for later use.
Continue reading Freezing Berries
Not only is this a ridiculously easy plant to grow, but it’s tasty, nutritious, and can be used as a functional part of a water feature in your landscape. Score one for versatility!
Continue reading Watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
Nothing says “tasty” like a carrot pulled from the refrigerator that proceeds to flop over like a spaghetti noodle, right? Hmmm… maybe not so much.
Continue reading Storing Root Vegetables
Orange carrots are so ubiquitous that it’s easy to think that they have always been the norm, yet they are actually the Johnny-come-lately’s of the carrot world. White and purple are really the old timers.
Continue reading Carrots (Daucus carota subsp. sativus)
If you love leafy greens, you can’t go wrong with chard. Talk about easy and reliable! My garden seldom goes without this delicious staple in the ground.
Continue reading Swiss Chard (Beta vulgaris)
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