Your own gourmet vegetables and fruits? Yes, you can grow your own! Start out with the easiest vegetables, add those you love to eat and soon you’ll be growing gourmet pickings for your table.
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Out Of Your Gourd Gardening
Growing gourds for arts and crafts. Turn your homegrown gourds into useful and beautiful things for garden and home.
Chicagoland Visit
Snapshots of Evanston Yards While in Chicago last week, I managed to visit my old neighborhood in Evanston, a suburb on the lake. The neighborhoods are still quiet and beautiful, the beaches alluring, but a few things have changed. The houses used to be almost uniformly painted in shade of light gray with deep gray […]
Good Reason To Eat Locally Grown Tomatoes
If you weren’t convinced already, the truth about your store bought, commercially grown tomato is out and being broadcast. Everything You Wanted To Know About Tomatoes But Were Afraid To Ask gives everyone a heads up on the new book, Tomatoland, by Barry Estabrook If ever there were a plethora of reasons to grow your […]
Molly Fisk on Asparagus
I thought my friend Johanna and some of you might enjoy listening to Molly Fisk’s thoughts on asparagus. It is an MP3 podcast. Or you can read the essay, here. I know we are past asparagus season, and well into the heat that makes lettuces bolt. Hopefully you have some Swiss chard which is delicious […]
Artisan asparagus
Photo credit: jasonwebber01 from morguefile.com Early in my “guest” period on this blog, i wrote about my back-killing efforts to plant more asparagus, and the perils of the monsoon rains and mud for weeks, thereafter. some tiny plants made it, but i must re-plant over half the bed. it is getting a bit hotter here, and […]
