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Salads

  • Meera’s Arugula, Feta, Cherry, and Toasted Almond Salad
  • Roasted Beet Salad
  • Blanched String Beans with Vinaigrette
  • Grapefruit and Greens: A Refreshing Winter Salad
  • Marlin’s Black-Eyed Pea Salad
  • @judyschickens Everyday Salad Dressing
  • Spring Planting Guide for Your Kitchen Garden

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Top Posts & Pages

  • How Local Canola Crops are Grown
  • How to Start Seeds in a Recycled Milk Jug
  • How to Make Pine Cone Flowers
  • Homemade Grape Jelly
  • Farming Equipment 101: Harvesting Winter Wheat
  • How to Knit Fingerless Mittens on Straight Needles
  • Group Project: A Shibori Dyed Quilt
  • Putting Your Garden to Bed with a Blanket of Cover Crops

Instagram Photos

“Choose Me!” Plant reproduction: zucchini. There are both female and male flowers on each plant. Bees carry pollen from one flower to the next. This is the first morning each of these young plants has had flowers. 90% of the flowers are male. That’s how it always starts-- it takes more energy to make a female flower and ovary so nature, because it is magnificent, makes sure there is lots of pollen at the ready for them. When you see what looks like a shriveled up yellow zucchini, that means it didn't get pollinated. I call that “Failure to Launch.” Before I knew this I wondered why some zucchini died as babies. #pollination #pollen #birdsandbees #backyardgarden #kitchengarden
Dagnabbit! What kind of night visitor knows how to pull a row cover off a bed of corn?! The critter ate the corn kernels and left the greens. #grrrrr #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #trialsandtribulations #corn I will reseed in a milk jug. Read how to do that using the link in my profile. #milkjuggarden #seedstarting
The flowers produced by onions and garlic are beautiful! But they gotta go if you want the onion and garlic bulbs to grow large. The day chefs made recipes with scapes (seed heads of garlic) popular, well that was a great day for farmers because they could sell the edible seed heads instead of throwing them in the compost. Always remember plants have one job-- to reproduce. Flowers make seeds. Seeds ensure more plants. Making seeds diverts the plant's energy from bulb growth-- our reason for it being in the kitchen garden. The last 3 pics show how a seedhead looks as it matures. The green pods mature into white seed packets filled with tiny black seeds. Nature is magnificent. #seeds #lifegoals #pollination #reproduction #growingfood #kitchengardens #backyardgarden and #onionsculpture #scapes
Reporting for duty. #volunteer This is the first episode of @roadshowpbs to be filmed since the pandemic started. 3000 guests are expected- each with 2 or 3 treasures to be appraised. This is a huge production. Cameras are everywhere. Volunteers have blue shirts, the crew is in green, and the appraisers are dapper. We all eat our meals together in the same mess hall- the tent at Cheekwood. Interesting: the appraisers are all volunteers who pay their own travel expenses. #antiquesroadshow
How to plant a tall tomato plant. Typically, we plant tomato plants deep in the soil for optimal root development. When you have a tall plant, you can’t plant it that deep because the root ball will be too cold to support growth. Solution? Dig a long 4-5 inch deep trench and lay the stem and root ball horizontally. Gently bend the tip of the plant so it becomes vertical. Cover stem with dirt leaving the tip exposed. Water regularly until roots are established. #plantingtomatoes #kitchengarden
Life cycle of an asparagus plant: A feathery fern flowers, it shows its bright yellow reproduction parts to some bees, it gets pollinated, a seed develops, the seed matures, it falls, young plants emerge, you wait 100 years, you get asparagus. You can buy year-old bare root plants — those take 3 or 4 years to mature and bear thick asparagus stalks. Repeat annually. #asparagusseason #howtogrowasparagus
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