Like other food gardeners, I enjoy eating sun-warmed tomatoes picked ripe off the vine and crisp greens harvested in the cool of the evening, but yesterday as I was preparing my favorite roast veggie dish, I thought about the lowly winter squash. The name says it all, this is not a vegetable to be enjoyed [...]
Entries Tagged as 'edible'
Grow Winter Squash for Storage
April 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Cooking & Recipes, Food Gardening, Vegetable Gardening, Winter Squash
Tags: butternut squash·chocolate·edible·garden·recipes·storage squash·vegetable·vegetable garden·veggies·Winter Squash
Grow Veggies in your Landscape
March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Landscape Design, Vegetable Gardening
No room for a vegetable garden? Don’t despair! There are all kinds of attractive veggies which will look decorative growing among your flowers or in a bed of their own in your front yard. Share and Enjoy:
Tags: beans·edible·flowers·garden·herbs·landscape·vegetable·veggies
Easy Green Bean Growing & Picking
March 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Vegetable Gardening
I love green beans fresh from the garden. Four or five varieties are always included in my spring garden seed order. In the past few years it’s been getting more difficult to get down to bush bean level to pick the summer bounty. A young friend observed my tomatoes growing on four-foot-tall sturdy square metal [...]
Tags: beans·edible·garden·growing·Insects·Soil·vegetable·veggies
Why Grow your own Vegetable Garden?
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Healthy Gardener, Vegetable Gardening
Great flavor – nothing tastes better than veggies from your own garden. No, you’re not imagining it. You’ve chosen the varieties which appeal to you, grown them in fertile soil without harmful chemicals, and harvested them at their ripe best. How can they not be delicious? Assist the environment – growing at home means a [...]