Fizz Kale Salad.
I have not blogged in a while, surely not any recipes anyhow. I blame the end of winter blahs. But with the newly light evenings I have been getting my grove back and now that there are fresh...
View ArticleKale and Golden Beet Salad.
I still have lots of yummy kale coming out of the garden and we are really loving it raw. This past weekend we went to the local farmers market for some items we don’t have coming out of the garden...
View ArticleSweet Potato and Kohlrabi Fritters.
Food, diet and nutrition are things that I have always been interested in and prided myself in being attentive to (no judging some of the fun, i.e. fatty recipes on this here blog!). Changing ones...
View ArticleSome Garden Fresh Breakfasts.
I do enjoy breakfast…a lot. Lately I have enjoyed making this AM garden fresh fare even more than thinking of something to cook for dinner. The plethora of yummies coming out of the garden has been a...
View ArticleHop Harvest 2012.
The 2012 hop harvest was a great success for The Root Cellars Garden. Using the same three plants as last year, we were able to increase our wet yield from about 10 pounds to 23.8 pounds and after...
View ArticleMexican Sour Gherkin Salsa.
We love new things in the garden. You might recall last year we grew mini Sweet Pea Red Currant Tomatoes that were so lovely in my Quinoa Caprese Salad. This year we went for mini cucumbers! They are...
View ArticleCurry Roasted Pumpkin Seeds.
I love roasted pumpkin seeds and so does the hubs. We grow carving pumpkins because the hubs likes to carve them, but also because we just really like the seeds. They are blank slate that I can do...
View ArticleSpring is here!
I will have a full photo update in the March garden log, but in the mean time you can browse one of only two cauliflowers that made it through the winter (this was completely my fault and could have...
View Article2013 – March Garden Log.
We had a fantastically lovely weekend and we got a lot of work done in the garden, including some overdue planting. Today, however, we are reminded that it is only the second of April and the chilly...
View Article2013 – April Garden Log.
I was looking back over the plantings from this year. I seemed to have overlooked many of the greens we have already sown. We have been eating European mesclun for three months now from containers,...
View Article2013 – May Garden Log.
My favorite view of the garden from our back patio. I love the combination of colors. I think I am trying to max out my media space with this post! There are a lot of photos, so prepare to see my weeds...
View Article2013 – June Garden Log.
6/9 Planted some more cilantro and also some genovese basil. The holy basil is not doing so well for me. I might sow some more and try again, but for today it was just the genovese that made it in the...
View Article2013 – July Garden Log.
As summer rolls ever forward the garden has become more of a jungle than a manicured landscape, and that I like! It has been extremely dry here, we had 0.00 inches of rain in July, so in order to keep...
View Article2013 – August Garden Log.
August was a month of harvesting for my little garden. We processed tomatoes, beans, tomatillos, cucumbers, potatoes, herb, did I mention tomatoes? Some stuff got away from us, but overall it was a...
View Article2013 – September Garden Log.
September started out quite warm for us and quickly tapered into expected pre-fall/fall weather. I love fall. It is my absolute favorite. Time to start harvesting the winter squashes and pumpkins, dig...
View Article2013 – October Garden Log.
I am of course, behind in getting this post up. Not too much happened in October, just the annual garlic planting. I did a full moon planting for the first time this year on October 18. We got 176...
View Article2013 – December Garden Log.
Nothing happened in my garden in November aside from some clean up. We spent the first part of December in a deep freeze, but just around the solstice the weather returned to a more seasonable temp...
View Article2014 – January Garden Log.
1/18 – I transplanted my first round of crisp mint romaine. It will continue to grow in the house and more will be direct sown outside in FEbruary. 1/19 – I did a second sowing of crisp mint romaine...
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