Our fall crop of salad greens is coming up nicely. In the photo above from left to right are ragged edge collards, arugula, red mustard and mizuna. Sounds like a perfect salad bowl to me. In fact, I broadcast my own mix of salad seeds in one area and am a bit disappointed to see that […]
In the world of pickling, you are either fermenting your vegetables in a salt brine or you are preserving them with vinegar. How you flavor your pickles leaves a world of options. Vinegar pickles are far easier. No need to find a crock for your cucumbers or monitor their progress as your bacteria friends transform […]
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We planted amaranth in the kitchen garden for show again this year. Their big, red tassles of grains make a big display. But we ready needn’t have spread new seed. There was plenty already in the ground from last year, as it turned out. We had so many volunteers that you could hardly see where we’d planted the […]
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