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Green Gardens Take Over the Green Tent
Hope you can join us - we'll be showing off our chickens, and the vegetable garden, of course.
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A great question came into Ask Gardenerd this week. “I bought some seeds that say 'determinate' and/or 'indeterminate'. What does that mean?”
Tomato plant sales are gearing up all across the country. Whether you visit a TomatoMania event, or a local nursery, it's clear that tomato fever is running rampant. In most warm climates, it's time to put them in the ground (while coastal and cool climate folks try to restrain themselves a little longer). Here are some helpful hints for planting tomatoes whenever you get around to doing it.
Last weekend, for the Mayor's Day of Service, I attended a 100 Mile Meal. The challenge is to make a dish using only ingredients that can be sources from within 100 miles. In talking with many of the participants, they realized how hard it can be to remain true to the cause.
Imported olive oil, toasted sesame oil, and cashews are just a few of the staple ingredients we often have on hand, but these are not locally ... ſကĀŸ&Ÿ&
Apparently, using water from specific brews found in your kitchen cooking pot can add certain nutrients to the soil, or help in other ways.
Our ongoing effort to use up the bounty of cabbages harvested this winter continues. This week, try this recipe for cabbage muthias, an Indian spiced dumpling that is sure to please.
The recipe recommends using Bob's Red Mill Garbanzo & Fava Flour, but I didn't have that, so I used straight Garbanzo flour. I suspect that the dumplings would have held together better during the process of making them. The end result held together fine, and tasted ...
I'm delighted to present a guest post from Mark Rainville, one of my fellow gardeners at Ocean View Farms, who has been experimenting with E.M. Bokashi over the last year. This is the first installment to get you started down the fabulous road to fermented tea as fertilizer / soil conditioner. Take it away, Mark:
With all of the home composting options available, the bokashi food scrap fermentation system is one of the easiest and can be the ...
Even if you live in a warm climate, canyon and foothill areas are susceptible to frost. Play it safe, know your frost dates. This week's Tip Of The Week will give you a basic primer on what you need tabout frost.
The latest post from Mar Vista's Bounty Hunter is up, just in time for your St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Find out some great ways to add this festive green to your meal plan this weekend.
St. Patty's Day and Cabbage
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The Gardenerd.com Tip of the Week for March 16, 2012. If you still have winter produce growing your garden, why not celebrate the coming of spring with a 100-mile meal party? A 100-mile meal is a potluck where guests bring dishes that have been grown within 100 miles or less of the potluck location.