Harvesting Your Apples: and Anyone Else’s for that Matter
As September gets into full swing, so does apple season. This is an exciting time of year as apples become abundant, and harvesting your apples from your own orchard (or someone else’s), brings pies, cobblers, and crisps to your table on a regular basis. It is a bittersweet time of year as well, because it signals the end of summer and the abundance of all of the crops that you have been able to grow …
Creative Blueberry Garden Recipes
One very important thing to learn as a gardener is to eat seasonally. This means eating greens and wintered over root vegetables in the early and late spring, peas and beans in the early summer, and finding 317 ways to eat blueberries, tomatoes, and peppers in the mid to late summer. In order to accomplish this goal, it requires that the gardener has a number of creative garden recipes at their disposal.
Five Ways With Blueberries
If …
Growing Your Own Berries – Raspberries, Strawberries and Blueberries
Berries are sometimes referred to as “nature’s candy,” and for good reason. They are naturally sweet and bursting with flavor – all originally intended to entice animals to gobble them up and spread the plant’s seeds far and wide. Berry season is creeping northward – starting in February in Florida with strawberries, with the last blackberry season not ending in northern Canada until late August. …
Halloween Gardening Pun (and fun!)
Tomorrow is Halloween! Yay! Chris and I are both major fans of Halloween. Halloween is a fun time for gardeners. After all, pumpkins are the star of the show! We did a big post on pumpkins a few weeks back. For fun on Halloween night, make Pumpkin Brains to serve your little trick-or-treaters before hitting the streets. (Recipe below)
Pun-kins
Puns are always …
Great Organic Greens!
Cooler weather means greens! As your grocery store prices rise, and “fresh” produce comes from Chile, you can grow some of your own to offset the cost and have tastier, more nutritious food on your dinner plate. Below, a portrait of greens, their nutritional values, recipes and how to grow them.
K K K Kale!
Kale is one of my all-time favorite greens. (Just ask …
