For the first time in almost five years, I’m adding a new goal to the list of January goals. It’s an easy-to-do goal, perfect after the stressful weeks of the holiday season. And since we’re all going to lose weight and exercise more (right?) what better time than now to start experimenting with new recipes?…
Have you ever had one of those weeks? The week where everything seems to go wrong and you find your finances, time and patience put to the test? Maybe you’re having a busy week shuttling kids to activities two or three times a day, lots of home and garden chores plus a rush of other…
This is the time to sprout This time of year, winter colds and bugs may be starting to get to your family. Your bodies need an extra boost of nutrition and fresh vegetable goodness. All that food we preserved from last year’s garden is dwindling and it will be a couple more months before we will…
So, last October Ross’ co-worker gave him two kohlrabi—two GIANT kohlrabi. Normally kohlrabi is about the size of an apple or orange, weighing about 6-10 ounces each. But these were HUGE, each one weighing twenty pounds! I would have expected them to be woody and not very tasty. But I was wrong. These mega-veggies were tasty,…
This week I dug up about 1/3 of my Jerusalem artichokes. The yield was 15 pounds of tubers. Pretty good for a crop that you plant just once, huh? What’s Jerusalem artichoke? Well, for starters, it’s not at all like an artichoke. It bears no resemblance to the artichoke and is only a distant cousin. The…
Last year I experimented growing a new variety (well, new to me, at least) of squash. The catalog said that under ideal conditions this squash would store for a year. That sounded interesting. Who doesn’t want fresh vegetables in the dead of winter or late spring before the garden starts producing? So I decided to…