Nonstop garlic
A clump of garlic scallions from a bulb left in the ground the previous year. For anyone who cooks and likes zesty food, garlic is a year-round essential. Doing without just isn’t an option. Happily,...
View ArticleEvergreen Pesto
Fresh basil with bags of frozen pesto Basil, that indispensible warm-weather herb and best friend of tomatoes has been a gardener’s favorite for years. Yet during my first 25 years, basil was no more...
View ArticleReady for Winter
Newly re-designed hoop house. If winter had arrived in November, as it often has in the past, we’d have been unprepared, crops left un-harvested and poorly protected and the detritus of our not-so-neat...
View ArticleTromboncino – Zucchini with a Flair
Inspired by Daisy and her flock, the Tromboncino posed as the mother duck and the Zephr zuccs as the ducklings. Ready for a change from my usual selection of zucchini varieties last year (Zephyr and...
View ArticleZoned Out
Garlic recovered from its weather-beaten start and grows strong and healthy. Somehow the mild winter and abnormally early spring of 2012, while extremely pleasant, caused a severe case of writer’s...
View ArticleAddendum
For shy people, finding ourselves prominently displayed in a newspaper can be unnerving. But Phyl Newbeck’s story on our evolving garden in the DYI section of the Burlington Free Press on June 26,...
View ArticleSummer Cilantro
Home grown coriander seeds with its offspring, a clump of cilantro. A favorite seasoning of tropical cuisines ought to grow happily in summer but Cilantro just doesn’t. It much prefers the cold. How...
View ArticleHome-dried tomatoes
Tomatoes drying in the sun, covered by cheesecloth. Given the options for preserving the bounty of tomatoes – canning, freezing or drying – I prefer the method that combines the most flavor for the...
View ArticleGlorious Greens of Fall
A riot of autumn greens - chard and kale. Between the withering heat of summer and the icy winds of winter comes the season we normally associate with warm colors – orange, red and gold – and later the...
View ArticleSchedule for Spring Gardening in Zone 4
Ground Hog Day marked the start of the new growing season, but spring began in earnest the second week in March with a flurry of outdoor activity during a welcome thaw. Maple sap flowed freely in the...
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