Celery pesto

Last year in the demo garden I decided to grow cutting celery, also known as leaf celery (also - correct me if I'm wrong - Ch…

Ornamental chard and wild garden kale

Window box in commercial building, Charleston, SC, with lovely red-stemmed chard as ornament, April 5.  (I did notice that in the…

Violet Jelly

Last summer I found a recipe for violet jelly. It was pretty simple: violet blossoms, water, lemon juice, sugar (lots of it!), a…

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…

Kale Soup for National Soup Month

January is National Soup Month. (Big Surprise – it’s also National Hot Tea month, something the Grow It Eat It crowd can plan for…

Thankful for salad tables!

We had home-grown salad for Thanksgiving dinner this year, thanks to a salad table in a sheltered spot just outside the back door…

Your favorite vegetable cookbooks!

Nowadays it seems that if I have a vegetable ingredient and I want to find a recipe to use it, I can just do a search on the Inte…

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…