Many years ago I found some fresh green beans really cheap and so I thought I’d buy a lot and can them because we love green beans. I knew that everyone said you have to have a pressure canner for green beans but I thought, what do they know, I’ll just do a really long water […]
In the garden….swiss chard
Note: Once a week I share a popular post from the archives. This post was originally published in May 2013. If you’ve been hanging around here lately you know that we’ve had an amazing Swiss Chard crop this year. If you’re a real life friend I’ve probably tried to pawn some off on you bless you […]
Growing Sprouts and Microgreens {Reader’s Questions Answered}
I recently asked our readers what questions you had about growing sprouts and microgreens. Boy, you guys had some great questions! Since I had never sprouted seed in order to eat the sprouts nor had I grown micro-greens until last month, I thought I’d reach out to some of my blogging friends who have been sprouting […]
All About Starting Seeds
Note: Once a week I share a popular post from the archives. This post was originally published in February 2014. Can we talk seeds for a while? Esther and I spent some time last week starting some seeds so hopefully we won’t need to buy transplants this year. As we did, we talked about the […]
In the Garden…growing moringa
Last week I became the proud owner of 4 moringa trees. Until just recently I had never heard of moringa but after doing some research I was super excited when Karen from Blue Yonder Urban Farm offered to send me some seedlings to review. So, what’s so amazing about moringa? How’s this for starters? Moringa leaves […]
In the garden…kale
Maybe we should just call this week “kale week” here on the blog. Today we’re going to talk about growing kale. Mine from the fall is still growing. In fact, it’s about 3 feet tall and even though we’ve had some days well into the 90’s it hasn’t gone bitter. As I’ve said before, some […]
Growing and Using Sweet Potatoes
Last year was the first time we’ve planted sweet potatoes. A friend was sweet and bought me some slips when she bought hers from the feed store. I later found out that they were $9…ouch. We didn’t do a very good job of digging them up, the soil where they were planted has a lot […]
Growing and Using Cabbage
It didn’t rain here at all last week and our ground finally dried out enough to till a some more garden beds. We’re still going to be piling on the compost and begin moving in a no till direction. But this will help us not have to use so much compost this year. We […]
In the garden…lettuce
I’ve really missed the “In the garden…” posts and am so excited to be starting them again. Gabriel was kind enough to till up one bed for me last week. It was still a little damp from the rain we had the week before and so it really needs one more going over before I […]
In the garden…luffas
Last year after reading Rhonda’s Down To Earth blog I found out that the luffa “sponge” I buy in the bath section at the store to bathe with is actually not a sponge. It is, in fact, a plant. A member of the squash family. How cool is that?! So I ordered some seeds from Local […]
