How to Grow Artichokes as an Annual
How to grow artichokes as an annual, from seeds to plants, in one season.
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Photo of the Day
After trying for 3 years, I’m finally – successfully! – growing artichokes. I’ll be posting my entire journey through this at a later date, but here’s my photo of the first harvested one: Gardening is a beautiful thing.
Playing the Fiddleheads
Warning: weird vegetable alert. In case you didn’t know it, you can eat the unfurled fronds of an ostrich fern. Yes, you heard that right. You can not only eat them but, if you’re like me, you can enjoy them immensely. Fiddleheads are, at least …
My Adventures in Gardening…Continued
Finally, the warmth is overtaking the cool temperatures and our gardens are starting to burst, bloom and flourish. I always like to give an update or two each summer on how my gardens are doing and what I’m growing. This year, I decided to try …
Hello March
Hallelujah, it’s finally March. It’s still snowing here in Northern Illinois but March is here and with it the knowledge that spring is just around the corner. I admit that I tend to hibernate a bit in the cold winter months but now, as the …
Fire Roasted Baba Ganoush
I grow eggplant every year in my garden because it’s one of our favorites. I’ve grown a few different varieties and we’ve loved them all. The plants don’t require any special care and aren’t prone to many diseases; I’ve never had a problem growing them here …
How to Make Homemade Sauerkraut
I admit that I’ve put off posting this fermentation recipe for quite some time. Not because it’s difficult or time-consuming because it’s neither, but because I’m absolutely terrible at photographing the process from beginning to end. (though I didn’t do too badly in showing you …