Recipe: Hodge Podge
This is an old fashioned recipe shared with me by my good friend from Nova Scotia. All ingredients are naturally gluten free. Make it when veggies are in season. I buy my veggies from the local farm, they are picked … Continued
What’s in the Garden? – K
It is time for K on the garden tour and at ABC Wednesday. The kitchen garden is a big part of my garden. I grow tomatoes, potatoes, beans, peas and lots more. My husband made me three plant tables a … Continued
What’s in the Garden? – E
It’s time for my weekly alphabetical garden tour to share what’s in the garden starting with D (birds, plants, whimsy and more). with you and with ABC Wednesday. One of my favourite plants to watch develop are the Egyptian Walking … Continued
Egyptian Walking Onions
Egyptian walking onions, also called tree onions, perennial onions, winter onions, or just walking onions belong to the allium genus, Allium proliferum. They prefer growing in full sun, are extremely hardy and easy to grow. I find these onions are … Continued
Jerusalem Artichoke
J is for Jerusalem Artichoke. Don’t let the name fool you, the Jerusalem Artichoke has nothing to do with artichokes or Jerusalem.It is in the sunflower family and is also called sunroot, sunchoke, or earth apple. It is a perennial … Continued
Growing Bags of Potatoes
Nothing beats that taste of homegrown potatoes. Here is how I grew several bags of potatoes, easily and without the back breaking work of digging them up. The past couple of years I’ve grown potatoes in bushel baskets and containers and … Continued
French Breakfast Radish
This was my first year growing radishes for a very long time. I was prompted to grow them because our grandson loves to munch on them. I tried a variety called French Breakfast, listed as ideal for container growing.
Yummy Veggies
I love to grow a selection of veggies in containers on my plant tables. Soon the weather will be nice enough to start planting. Some veggies like peas, bean and root plants prefer to be planted directly into the soil. … Continued
Z for Zucchini
Zucchini, or as the British call them – courgettes, is a summer squash. This is actually a fruit but we treat it as a vegetable. These plants originate in Italy but are grown across many part of the globe. The seed … Continued
P for Potatoes
I’ve grown potatoes in large bushel baskets for a couple of years now. I had been doing some reading on the internet and came across some articles about folks that grew potatoes in containers or bushel baskets and I decided … Continued
T for Tomatoes
T for tomatoes … freshly picked from the garden … mouth watering … delicious … red … yellow … orange … big … small. Tomatoes are always referred to as vegetables yet they are an edible fruit that belong to the … Continued
Recipes: Choose, Chop, Roast
A trip to the farmers market at this time of the year will make your taste buds salivate when you think of all the wonderful dishes you can make with the veggies at this time of the year. A favourite … Continued
Alaska Peas
Peas are very ap’pea’ling. There is nothing better than popping out into the garden and picking some peas and eating them fresh from the pod. Sow pea seeds in early spring. Plant about 2.5 cm deep and cover with soil. … Continued
Recipe: Braised Red Cabbage
A huge head of red cabbage was given to me by a neighbour, along with yellow beans and field tomatoes. Red cabbage isn’t a vegetable that I usually cook but I wanted to try it out. I’ve had it in … Continued
The Yummy BBQ Season
BBQ season is wonderful. There are so many foods to cook outdoors. We look forward to bbq cooking all winter. I know some people can bbq all year round but we only do it from spring to fall. It just … Continued