Garlic in May

This was the year that I discovered “young” garlic. I had never tried it and didn’t know that, like a leek, you can use all of the white base of the plant, as well as the tender, lighter-green part of the stalk. And I do mean all of the white base. The papery wrappers we’re all used to peeling away from our cured garlic? They are soft and savory and you just cut right through them when you prepare the immature clove and the fleshy bottom of the stem.

When the Garden Gets Ahead of You

Sooner or later something growing in the garden gets away from me. The lettuce plants go to seed one hot afternoon, the peas fatten up way beyond sweetness, that nice round cabbage turns oblong and splits. But how I manage to miss this monster in development, I will never know.

10 Small, Good Things

The enormity of the news from Japan is overwhelming. The scale of the quake and the power of the waves is beyond what I can comprehend. Wishing I knew how to cool a nuclear reactor, I’ve retreated to my garden to spend time with the small, good things I can see there. They feel fragile and precious and I want to see them and share them before they are gone.

Fresh in February: 22 Things We’re Eating Right Now from the Family Food Garden

It takes some planning. And, depending on your growing zone, it may take some straw, row covers or cold frames. But it really is possible in most USDA Zones to eat something out of your garden year round. Here are the 22 fresh foods we can eat out of our yard this February…

Compost and Cabbages

Slugs will slime across hot cement to get to my red cabbages. I set out a bowl of beer under a patch of cabbages I was trying to save and I swore I could hear slugs laughing at me the next morning. They had ignored the beer completely and eaten the red cabbage leaves down to the leaf spines they left sticking out like bare bones. Remind me whether or not Sluggo is organic.

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 407 other followers