Category: Edibles
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Late October: Time to Plant the Garlic!
Halloween always seems to come too early. I’m never ready for the orange and black dollar store trinkets when they start snarling up the landscape. But it is a harbinger of the all hallowed garlic planting season! Garlic is a pretty reliable and fun thing to plant. Someone I spoke…
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Plant Profile: Bronze Fennel
I have always been confused about fennel. I had it growing in a border years ago and watched it grow all summer to 6′ tall. I searched the base for the edible bulb, but it didn’t look at all as substantial as the fennel at the farmer’s market. I then…
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Tomato Cages Don’t Work
This is my tomato situation this year: I wanted to fashion rabbit fencing into 5 foot cylinders, but did not have time. So here’s what I did have time to do: We jammed 6 stakes into the ground and I just wound twine around in zig zaggy webs. I will…
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Add Salad Burnet Seeds to Your Herb List
I picked up this plant at the West Chester Growers Market last year. I asked the farmer what it was and he said “Salad Burnet! It’s great. Tastes like cucumber.” It’s funny when people use vegetables to sell the flavor of other vegetables. I wondered if he’d somehow mistaken the name.…
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Garlic and Shallots
This year, I pre-soaked my garlic and shallots in a solution of baking soda (to kill any unwanted fungi) and liquid kelp (for nutritional goodness). Some people use cider vinegar or vodka, but I don’t like the sound of that. You can soak for 2 hours or overnight. There are…
Heart of the Garden 