Beets, carrots, turnips: One last supper

Last Harvest from Garden 2011 When I heard the temperature was going to drop into the low 20s just after New Year’s, I took a buc…

The roots of the garden

This is the first of my planned posts on successful crops I'm going to revisit in the demo garden next year.  I thought I'…

Sherlock Gardener: Case of the hollow turnips

My discovery: Hollow turnip How disappointing!  The leaves of my fall crop of Golden Globe turnips (Burpee Organic) were nearly p…

Damrosch on ‘earth vegetables’

Buried treasure Here’s a link to Barbara Damrosch, “A Cook’s Garden” columnist in the Washington Post, on “What on earth? Winter’…

Crunchy tubers: yacon and dahlia

Apologies in advance: this post contains some of the most boring photos ever. :) I mentioned in a previous post that I was going…