I was making Italian wedding soup in the crock pot for dinner tonight when I decided to pick some kale from the garden to use (in place of spinach or escarole) in my recipe. Still picking greens from your garden, you ask? Credit the warm winter we’ve been having! And kale is the hardiest of [...]
A friend has asked me how to grow herbs indoors during the winter. Since she started using fresh herbs, the dried version just doesn’t cut it any more. She spends a lot of money on the little sprigs that are for sale in the grocery store produce department. She would prefer to save that money [...]
It felt like 100 degrees in the shade on Sunday afternoon when a group of gardeners came to tour my kitchen garden. Not ideal weather for this enjoyable pursuit! Still, the intrepid garden gazers assembled at my house and ventured out into the broiling sun to take a look at edible plants in the landscape, [...]
I was at my mother-in-law’s house last weekend, and there were a couple of garden tours going on in the surrounding community. Like many gardeners, my heart quickens when I hear or read about a garden tour! Botanical gardens are wonderful if you want to glean information on different plants, to see collections of the [...]
One plant that I would be sad to live without is feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium, also sometimes sold as Chrysanthemum parthenium). It is a charming plant that is a member of the sunflower family. A perennial herb, it prefers to grow in full sun, and usually reaches about 24 inches tall. It is hardy to USDA zone 5. Feverfew [...]