The latest post from Mar Vista's Bounty Hunter is available from Patch.com. Get the lowdown on those funky orange fruits that are all over the markets these days. Find out what they are and what to
do with them:
Do You Fuyu? It's Time for Persimmons
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In an effort to use up more of the gifted limes from a friend (see Watermelon Lime Sorbet), I
pulled out Ann Gentry's Real Food Daily Cookbook for ideas. Flipping through the index, I found several lime-infused dishes that must be tried. The first: Black Bean Soup with Jalapeño Lime Creme.
Alicia Silverstone has kindly reproduced it on her site, The Kind Life, so ...
The giant Crimson Sweet watermelon is taking up a lot of room in the refrigerator, so something must be done. The pile of limes on the counter, gifted to me from a friend, is also singing out a call
to action. The solution? Watermelon Lime Sorbet.
It's no surprise that watermelon and lime is the perfect, orgasmic combination of flavors that bridges the seasonal change from summer to fall. Even though we are moving into flavors of earthy root
vegetables and hearty stews, the refreshing sweetness of citrus and melon is a ...
For so many years, arugula has been a staple in the garden. It's a fantastic addition to salads (grown right next to mustard greens and lettuces, it adds amazing texture to the garden as well), and
can be cooked into pasta dishes, thrown on sandwiches or served as a garnish for Italian dishes.
This year, our regular arugula plants are getting some competition. We've always grown arugula (A.K.A. rocket salad, rocket arugula, eruca sativa), but ever since a visit to Italy where we ate an
entire salad made from Wild arugula (A.K.A. ...
This weekend is the Los Angeles Green Festival, where I will be speaking on Sunday, October 30 at 2 p.m in the
Sustainable Home and Garden Pavilion. Heirlooms and Open-pollinated Seeds will be the topic of the afternoon, and if you want to learn why it's so important for us to grow these gems, and save the
seeds, come on down and find out.
The latest post from Mar Vista's Bounty Hunter is live and ready for your perusal. Find great ideas for cooking and decorating with pumpkins and other beautiful fall winter squash varieties:
Celebrate Halloween and Fall with Winter Squash
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D. Landreth is the oldest seed house in America, and it's going out of business unless we help them. The bank has seized the company's assets and in order to pay back its debt, D. Landreth is selling seed catalogs to raise funds. Here's the scoop from their website:
Just a few moments in the garden reveal that it must be mating season for the cabbage moth. These deceptively cute white butterflies can be found twirling around one another and fluttering about the
garden, looking for a good place to lay their eggs. Be prepared.
We planted out our kale and cabbage crops early this year, but took the precaution of covering them with floating row cover to keep the critters from
settling in.
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If you grow from seed this fall, you'll have a chance to enjoy the benefits of thinning your seedlings right into the salad bowl. Baby greens may be expensive in the market, but they're free when you
pick from the excess of sprouts in your garden.
Even when using Square Foot Gardening, I like to have a little bit of insurance. I plant two or three seeds in each planting hole, then wait for survival of the fittest to make itself known. The
smaller seedlings are then snipped off (with scissors, rather ...
The latest post from Mar Vista's Bounty Hunter is live and ready for your perusal. Learn all about Rita's Roman Recipes (website coming soon), and where to get them:
A Taste of Italy in Mar Vista
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