How'd your vegetable garden perform during the summer of 2021? Did it produce for you the harvest of your dreams? Thanks to a too-cold, too-hot summer, my own kitchen garden was (and still is) a prolific disaster. Here's my "farm report," followed, I hope, by … [Read more...]
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Your Veggie Garden Report: July 2021
How's your veggie patch coming along? Any troubles to report? My own Kitchen Garden, above, is struggling to grow in the extreme weather that has so far defined the summer of 2021. Oy vey. Here's my "farm report," followed, I hope, by yours: Bed #1. Delicata Squash. … [Read more...]
Vegetarian “Beyond Beef” Loaf
I made this Vegetarian Beyond Beef Loaf the other day, and it was beyond delicious. Beyond Beef is the popular plant-based substitute for ground beef. It contains zero soy, zero gluten, zero GMOs. Fox and I actually prefer it to the real deal, and we're hard-core meat … [Read more...]
Late July Kitchen Garden Tour
What a difference a few weeks makes! When we last visited the Kitchen Garden, the butternut squash was just beginning to ascend its cattle panel trellis. Now the plant has climbed all the way to the top! Check out the riotous vines and more in this virtual late July … [Read more...]
What Are You Doing In Your Garden To Deal With Food Shortages?
Back in March, 2012, I wrote a short piece titled "What Would You Plant in Your "Subsistence Garden?" The question generated a flood of thoughtful comments. To my … [Read more...]
My November 2019 Garden Chores
My mantra for November: Leave the garden in autumn the way you wish to find it in spring. Every weed pulled, every tool put away, and every clean-up operation completed … [Read more...]
French Leek and Potato Soup
I first learned about leeks at age 14, when Juliette Miller -- my friend Jerry's French-born-and-raised mother -- gave me a paper bag filled with the fat, pale-green stalks, freshly dug from her garden. When I asked what I should do with them, Juliette took a pencil … [Read more...]
A Virtual Garden Tour
Can you get away for a moment? I'd love to offer you a virtual garden tour of my Kitchen Garden. After weeks of cold, wet, and downright- dreary weather, the veggies and flowers there are finally singing "June is Bustin' Out All Over." I hope you know that Broadway … [Read more...]
Sheet Pan Dinner: Chicken, Veggies, and Carrot Top Pesto
My biggest garden regret of 2017? That I didn’t plant more orange and purple carrots. I love the beta carotene-rich roots as well as the ferny green tops. Yes, carrot foliage is edible! It makes a fine pesto, too, when combined with garlic and lemon. I made carrot top … [Read more...]
A Walk in the Mid-April Garden
Happy mid-April, everyone! The gardens have been slow as molasses this spring, thanks to the unnerving snow and bitter cold of March. But today the birds are singing, the grass is greening, and hey -- why not join me on a virtual garden tour? Although the temperature … [Read more...]