’Tis the season to store the produce from our gardens. While many fruits and vegetables will last for months when properly stored, keeping it safe from rodents and other pests is imperative. This month, I purchased a box of apples from a local farm stand and kept them in a corner of the garage where ...
Read More | Pest PatrolThe transition of spring transitioning into summer is a terrific time to implement your plan for succession planting. This is the strategy of removing one plant or crop and replanting another plant or crop in that space. It’s typically something we think about for the fall crops, but spring into summer is just as good ...
Read More | Just VeggiesIn the early spring of 2021 I planted a small row of shallots. The 2021 gardening year, particularly for growing anything in the allium family, was pretty much a bust for me. Whether it was the composition of my soil, the unusually wet weather or my lack of fertilizing (not unusual), I never did collect ...
Read More | Just VeggiesSomething I like to do before a Thanksgiving meal is to prepare everything I can ahead of time. The week before the meal, my kitchen is bursting with pie fillings, spice blends, chocolate ganache, various doughs, and flavor bombs such as bulk roasted garlic. Garlic can be prepped a number of different ways. For a ...
Read More | The Fresh SpreadA friend gifted me with a small bag of garlic bulbs to do with as I wish. She had harvested and cleaned them herself, and she said I could plant them or cook with them—they’re good for either purpose. The bag contained a number of different garlic varieties in varying sizes and skin and striation ...
Read More | Just VeggiesLast year my softneck garlic growing game was off. Little did I know that my lack of fortune then would result in a bonanza this season. Here’s what happened. Lack of Fortune Although I had grown softneck garlic for several years previously, last year was the first year I grew garlic—or anything, for that matter—in ...
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