Cooking with garlic scapes.
One of the many pleasures of growing your own garlic (see here for a how-to on growing garlic) is the arrival of garlic scapes. These are the little curlicue sprouts that shoot, almost overnight, from the …
Tag: gardening
Garden glory.
If you have a garden, you know that it yields hair-pulling and frustration, pride and wonder in equal measure—often, all in the same growing season. So I hope you’ll excuse a little bit of the latter …
New source for garden goodies.
Gardeners and foodies take note: you’ll want to check out Agrarian, the new retail line from the folks at Williams-Sonoma.
Refreshing mint-lime tea.
An abundance of mint growing in my garden inspired this refreshing tea with fresh lime juice and local honey.
Glorious spring.
If I didn’t capture this glorious weather in a post today, then I’d forget how good we have it next year when spring is icky.
Gardening tip: reviving frost-nipped herbs.
If this week’s frost has claimed your outdoor herbs, here’s how to revive them.
Fall gardening: arugula.
On this gloriously sunny and pleasantly cool November 1st, I have two things growing in the garden: garlic, which is poking its little heads up through the bed of leaves it’s mulched with, and arugula. I’m …
An end, and a beginning.
This weekend, I completed two chores in the vegetable garden … and together, they pointed out the wonderful cycle of planting, growing, harvesting, declining and planting that any garden represents. I began to clear out the …
Oven-dried tomato pesto.
In October, this late in the summer vegetable-gardening season, we’re still getting scads of cherry tomatoes, thanks to a stretch of absolutely gorgeous, mid-70-degree weather. I fear that will not last. We’re picking tomatoes faster than …
