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by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Food, Landscape Trees, recipes

Homesteader Heirloom Apples and Real Cider

Tagged With: apple cider, apples, heirloom apple, heirloom apple planting

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 … [Read more...] about Homesteader Heirloom Apples and Real Cider

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Vegetable garden

The Plan For Your Own Potager

Tagged With: gourmet, greens, mesclun, vegetable garden

An Easy-Peasy Organic Garden Good Eating from the Garden The French call these food gardens "potagers", the English called them "kitchen gardens", Americans have always called them "the vegetable patch", but growing your own little plot of ground … [Read more...] about The Plan For Your Own Potager

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Garden crafts, Plants, Vegetable garden

Out Of Your Gourd Gardening

Tagged With: garden crafts, gourd art videos, gourds, vegetable garden

The Seed That Grew Birdhouse Gourds - Lots Of Them! Gourds are easy to grow. And besides being easy (which makes them a candidate for growing in a children's garden), there are lots of things that you can do with them if you love to craft and … [Read more...] about Out Of Your Gourd Gardening

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Featured, Food, gardening tips

Ready To Eat Local? How About Slow Gardening?

Tagged With: Featured, local eating, 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 … [Read more...] about Ready To Eat Local? How About Slow Gardening?

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: seed starting, tomatoes

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 … [Read more...] about When Thoughts Turn To…Plants

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Garden photos, Garden Stories and Memories, summer, Vegetable garden

Chicagoland Visit

Tagged With: front yard, garden places, vegetable garden

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 … [Read more...] about Chicagoland Visit

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by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: recipes, tomatoes

Good Reason To Eat Locally Grown Tomatoes

Tagged With: growing food, tomatoes, vegetable garden

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 Askgives everyone a heads up on the new book, Tomatoland, by … [Read more...] about Good Reason To Eat Locally Grown Tomatoes

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: An Armchair Gardener, Food

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 … [Read more...] about Responsible and Remarkable Resource

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Uncategorized, Vegetable garden

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-toA few posts to remember:Artisan AsparagusMolly Fisk on Asparagus … [Read more...] about A Rant On Asparagus

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Vegetable garden

Just Quick Carrot Posting

Carrots are one of my favsI 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 … [Read more...] about Just Quick Carrot Posting

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I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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