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The Great Garlic Harvest
2 commentsThe lone scape standing gave me the sign to pull out the spading fork. The Great Garlic Harvest was ready to begin.
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Homegrown / Homemade: Strawberries
Strawberries are perfect for the home garden: easy to pick and easy to manage. In this video, Danielle and Sarah plant day-neutral strawberries in a raised bed and look forward to tasty fruit later this summer.
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Herb Blends to Grow for the Cook's Delight
This weekend I will be giving a demo featuring ‘Herbal Blends from Around the World’ at the Thrive! Summer Festival at the U.S. Botanic Garden. It has inspired me to think about growing small gardens or containers featuring herb blends.
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Structured Salads are Super for Supper
1 commentStructured salads are an easy way to use garden-fresh veggies and herbs. Besides being fun to make, these salads help stretch your creativity and grocery budget at the same time.
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Chefs From Across the Nation Gather at the White House Kitchen Garden
2 commentsOn Friday, June 4, 2010, over 500 chefs from 38 states gathered at the White House by invitation of the first lady, Michelle Obama in support of her Chefs on the Move initiative.
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Homegrown / Homemade: Potatoes
1 commentChoose the potato varieties you like to cook with, and get 'em in the ground. A gardener and a cook show you how in Episode 1 of this Homegrown/Homemade video series. Now playing: How to Hill Potatoes (Episode 2).
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Perfect Plant Pairings
Just like pairing wine with food, vegetables can be matched with their most compatible herbs. A good pairing brings out the flavors of each to help you get the most from your garden.
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My Favorite Salad Green--Whatever You Want to Call It: Arugula or Rocket
1 commentRocket (Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa) is an ancient plant, cultivated or gathered from the wild in most Mediterranean countries; over the past decade it has become popular in North America. Its several names in Italian indicate how widespread it is on the peninsula: arugula, ruchetta, rucola; in French it is known as roquette.
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Grow a Cold Soup Garden
A chilly bowl of cold soup is the perfect way to beat the summer heat. Just about any sturdy vegetable can be turned into a refreshing meal on a sizzling hot day.
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A Passion for Cooking with Peppers
Every kitchen garden needs several different kinds of peppers to use in summer-time recipes. Here are five varieties to add a little spice to your cooking life.
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Homegrown / Homemade: Carrots
Do your carrots look like twisted aliens? Danielle (the gardener) shows Sarah (the cook) how to grow plump, straight, and pest-free carrots just right for fresh recipes.
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Another Harbinger of Spring: The Merry Mints!
Mints come in such a profusion of varieties--and all tend to crossbreed with each other--leading to much confusion among both the marketers and buyers of mints; even herbal experts do not always describe the same species in the same way. To make sure that you are buying plants that are closest to the true species, buy them from a trusted herb grower.
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The 30-Mile Gardening Rule
Landscape designer, horticulturist and author Maureen Gilmer encourages gardeners to embrace their inner tightwad in her new book, “The Small Budget Gardener: All the Dirt on Saving Money in Your Garden.” Gardeners should pretend they live 30 miles from town so they’ll carefully think about their gardening needs before buying.
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When is a Pear a Vegetable?
The sharp spines of the Opuntia can be intimidating, but once they’re removed, the “nopales” turns into a nutritious vegetable that defies its prickly appearance.
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More Harbingers of Spring: Chives
Be sure to click on each photo to see it expanded and read the captions. Chives are bright green in my garden now and it seems like they are growing about half-inch a day! Get out there and snip some of those fresh onion-like herbs to add flavor to your spring dishes!
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Homegrown / Homemade: Peas
6 commentsThe tricky part of harvesting peas is knowing when they're ripe. Watch three new episodes: harvesting, prepping, and preparing a fresh pea and mint soup.
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Hail to the Peas
You don't need to have a large south lawn or live in a White House to grow a spring vegetable garden. All you need is this list of vegetables, herbs and flowers to plant a presidential garden.
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Herbal Harbingers of Spring: Lemon Balm
In most parts of the country our gardens are coming alive and we are rejoicing that spring is upon us. We delight as the first herbs appear in the garden and combine their flavors with seasonal...
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Celebrate National Garlic Month
April is National Garlic Month and you can celebrate in two ways: in the garden and in the kitchen.
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Our contributing editors are accomplished gardeners, passionate about discovering and sharing new ideas and practical techniques.
susan belsinger
Specialty: culinary herbalism
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Brandi Spade
Specialty: Container gardening
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Kate Frank
Specialty: herbs, meatless meals
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