When your spring crops like lettuce, herbs, radishes and garlic have finished producing, you’re left with valuable garden space that is primed for a quick-growing crops for the summer. Sure, some of your other crops could crawl their way over and occupy that space. But why not try to squeeze just a little more produce ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI enjoy sweet potatoes immensely. I didn’t eat them often growing up because I lived on a farm that grew the other kind of potato, the generic white-fleshed, brown-skinned version. Truth be told, I prefer the sweet potatoes. The reason why? To me, they just have more flavor. And the bonus is they are nutritious, ...
Read More | Just VeggiesWeeding tools abound in garden centers and home improvement stores. A common hoe, once the only tool in the garden shed (or at least my garden shed) has lost its space in the tool rack to a range of specialty weeders. And with good reason! A hoe chops through the soil to cut weeds’ roots. ...
Read More | Just VeggiesGround cherries will be the “new to me” crop in this year’s garden. I like to plant one item I’ve never grown before, and especially one that I haven’t had much experience with in the kitchen. Ground cherries, also known as husk cherries, fit the bill. I may have eaten a ground cherry but can’t ...
Read More | Just VeggiesSugar cane—is it a vegetable? Or since it’s sweet, maybe it’s a fruit? It’s neither—it’s simply a grass. But it’s edible, so that gives me permission to devote one edition of Just Veggies to this tropical crop. If you’re like me, you’ve never really given sugar cane a second thought. Sugar, yes. Sugar cane, no. ...
Read More | Just VeggiesKohlrabi is one of those vegetables I grew because I never grew it before. Every year I try to challenge myself to grow some new-to-my-garden crop. About 15 years ago that crop was a no-name variety of kohlrabi. I met with some success, but not enough to put it in my rotation. In fact, I ...
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