The Renaissance of Heirloom Apples Traditionally, an old fashioned fall treat has been the availability of aromatic autumn apples and the rich complex flavor of pressed cider. Although grocery stores attempt to carry “cider” in pasteurized containers all year, the taste is insipid in comparison to the special flavor that blended heirloom varieties give to…
Vegetable garden
The Plan For Your Own Potager
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.
Out Of Your Gourd Gardening
Growing gourds for arts and crafts. Turn your homegrown gourds into useful and beautiful things for garden and home.
Ready To Eat Local? How About Slow Gardening?
Go Slow Slow Food and Slow Gardening are related. What is slow food you ask? Sourcing your ingredients locally and using high quality is the gist of it. Growing your own would be a part of it, but patronizing the farmer’s markets and encouraging your grocer’s to supply locally produced products would be part of…
When Thoughts Turn To…Plants
It is January, and in Ohio we experienced our usual January thaw… so everything is quite soggy at this point. Most of the gardeners here realize that we have several more months until we can garden and at least one more month to expect winter weather, but right now our thoughts turn to plants -the…
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…
Responsible and Remarkable Resource
I like to shop at Whole Foods, and this spring I picked up a free magazine called “Edible Columbus”. I got a chance to really read through and get into the articles within, and was surprised at the range and depth of this great resource. It was a complimentary issue, and I hope it is…
A Rant On Asparagus
I found a video by a passionate man on the do’s and don’ts of asparagus…. if you have a desire to cook your own asparagus, or purchase in the groceries. Asparagus video-how-to A few posts to remember:Artisan AsparagusMolly Fisk on Asparagus ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ © 2010 written for Ilona’s Garden Journal. An excellent blog.Photo credit:…
Just Quick Carrot Posting
Carrots are one of my favs I haven’t grown my own carrots for years and years. They just weren’t worth it financially or the way I went about it. Carrots need a deep soil of good tilth without clumps so they grow nice and straight, and other such concerns. I had the idea “been there,…