10 results of 34 Blog Posts

Ten Large Peppers

posted August 16, 2010 in A Tasty Thought by JG

After these 10 large green peppers were placed on my countertop the song/book  "Five Little Pumpkins" quickly came to mind.  It's the song that young children learn during the month of October.  For younger tots th (read full article)

Kitchen Garden Day

posted August 12, 2010 in Aroma Cucina

Next Sunday, August 22, is the first annual celebration of World Kitchen Garden Day, where we gather in our gardens and celebrate the miracle of all things that grow.  Created in response to “National Snack Food” month we get to pat ourselves o (read full article)

Cooking from the Garden: A Cookbook Review & Giveaway

Did you know there used to be a magazine called Kitchen Gardener? I did not, until I received a review copy of Cooking from the Garden: Best Recipes from Kitchen Gardener. From the publisher: The vegetable garden is back – thanks to renewed intere (read full article)

My Cup Runeth Over!

posted July 29, 2010 in A Foodie's Quest

If July is about the horn of plenty filling up, then August is all about the horn spilling over! All across Canada and the Northern Hemisphere, gardeners and farmers alike are being overwhelmed by the abundance of their crops... for the most part. So (read full article)

Thinning Your Seedlings

posted June 16, 2010 in A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa

Good Morning Garden Soldiers!  It's been quite awhile since I've posted on my gardening series since I've been so busy in my own garden.  I'm happy to say, everything is sowed in the ground and in different stages of sprouts to harvest. Thinnin (read full article)

How Does My Garden Grow? 6/14

DH is such a sweetie! He put in a garden bed for me this weekend and also helped fence in the garden area to keep the bunnies out. The bunnies have eaten my beets and carrots but the peas survived. The bag garden is working well for them, but after t (read full article)

Fun With Garlic Scapes

Fear not, our regular Thirsty Thursdays feature will resume next week. I simply haven't had a chance to mix up any magic in the cocktail area this week. Sad, huh? But I have had time to get busy with some garlic scapes. As I mentioned yesterday, (read full article)

Post 205: Curse you gardeners world

posted May 24, 2010 in VegBoxBoy

Such is my rock n roll lifestyle these days, that I found myself watching Gardeners World on Friday night. I'd just planted out my tomatoes. In my simple head, I'd presumed it was enough to put tomatoes into soil. Oh no, apparently, it's better: dev (read full article)

An Around the House Lovely: Wild Flowers

posted May 02, 2010 in The Busy Budgeting Mama

An easy way to bring spring inside is to grab up some wild flowers (or from your local shop if you have a black thumb like me...most of the time. i kill flowers without even trying) place the flowers in whatever you have around the house! vases, (read full article)

Setting seeds

posted April 29, 2010 in soupmaker.co.uk

We  spent most of last Saturday setting seeds for what we hope will be a bumper harvest, so fingers crossed they all pop up and grow big and strong.  Even the beautiful Pobble cat likes to get involved! I have upload an on going list of  ‘w (read full article)

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