Country Gentlemen Corn
YouTube: Growing Corn
Spring is nearly here, and it's time to plant corn. Whether you like popcorn or sweet corn, it's fun and easy to grow. Just make sure you do it right.…
Bare Root Strawberries arrive looking a little sad. A bundle of roots and dormant crowns.
Planting Bare Root Strawberries
Our strawberry patch thrived for about 7 years. We ignored common lore that you have to replace your strawberry plants every couple of years and did something different instead: every…
Martha Stewart's team came up with this recipe nearly 20 years ago. It's still delicious.
Valentine’s Day Gardening
We love our gardens. Much like we do with pets, many of us spend more money on gardening stuff than we do on essentials for ourselves (well, gardening stuff is…
Break the bulb into cloves. Leave the paper sheath on.
Growing Garlic
I can't believe I haven't written about growing garlic before. Sure, we've covered harvesting garlic and even shown you how to make your own garlic braid, but we've never started…
Add tomato paste, kale, the bay leaf, and broth, then simmer for about 10 minutes.
Recipe: Portobello Mushroom and Kale Stroganoff
It's that half-eaten container of sour cream in the fridge that brought us to this recipe. You know the one: that lonely tub, brought over by a guest for a…
Helios radishes, one of several new varieties we trialed this winter.
Wordless Wednesday – Winter Garden Bliss
As we prep for spring gardening, we enjoy the harvest from our winter garden. Soon it will be time to start seeds, but in the meanwhile, we add compost to…
Flour, water, salt and starter are the only ingredients in this loaf. Long rise (4 hours with turns every 1/2 hour), and then overnight refrigeration make this loaf great.
Sourdough Bread – Why It’s Better Than Yeast
I've been making bread for 25 years, but I've always been afraid of sourdough starter. Pretty sure I would kill it from neglect, so I limited myself to packaged yeast...until…
Mostly started from nursery transplants to make it easy for beginning gardeners. We did plant seeds for radishes and carrots though.
Toddler Garden
It's important for kids to know where their food comes from, so here at Gardenerd we like to start them young. Really young, in the case of this recent garden…
Rare, but becoming more available, Glass Gem Popping Corn is one to grow in 2016.
Garden New Year’s Resolutions 2016
I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. High expectations at the beginning of the year often lead to disappointment in a short time, once life steps in to…
A mixture of lettuces and kale, planted from nursery transplants, allow residents to see the difference between starting from seed and buying from the nursery.
Design: Therapeutic Garden For Recovery
Every once in awhile we get to be part of something big. Build a garden that really makes a difference. This is one of those gardens. For those who've never…