vegetables

Category: vegetables

July 11, 2020

extend your vegetable garden season, with niki jabbour

LONGTIME GARDENER AND FIRST-TIMERS went all out in this craziest of years, bringing the expression “victory garden” back into the headlines. We all planted in..

March 20, 2020

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16 things i know about growing tomatoes

FROM THE FIRST SEED SOWN to the last fruit stashed in the freezer, homegrown tomatoes are a labor of love. Whether it’s tomato-sowing time (as..

February 13, 2020

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growing potatoes organically: when and how to plant, hill and harvest

A FRIEND I BUY seed potatoes with and I were scratching our heads as we filled out the order form, blanking on the line where..

February 7, 2020

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how to grow kale, with sarah kleeger of adaptive seeds

‘ANYONE CAN GROW KALE,’ the seed farmers at Adaptive Seeds—who have collected kales from around the world and made them a specialty—said recently, seeming to..

February 6, 2020

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grow onions from seed, with seed breeder don tipping of siskiyou seeds

SICK OF SPENDING BIG on onion and leek transplants? Master growing those edible Allium from seed, and also learn a bigger lesson: about the powerful..

January 17, 2020

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perennial edibles, landraces and other unusual seeds, with nate kleinman of experimental farm network

A LOT OF WHAT I LEARNED about gardening, I learned from seed catalogs, always gravitating to ones featuring the odder varieties the better—plants promising lots..

January 11, 2020

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seed series: irresistibly tasty varieties to try, with lane selman of culinary breeding network

IT’S SEED-SHOPPING TIME, time to kick off my annual Seed Series on the show and website, and introduce you—and myself—to plants both traditional and cutting-edge..

November 29, 2019

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winter squash-coconut milk soup with garam masala

THE RABBITS got the beans that year. The cold weather all that same “summer” got some of the tomatoes. But I got the winter squash,..

November 8, 2019

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david lebovitz’s french onion soup (from ‘my paris kitchen’)

SOME ONIONS WON’T LAST—you know, the ones whose tops didn’t brown down thoroughly before harvest, and may still look more like a scallion’s stalk. Solution:..

October 4, 2019

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how to store garden vegetables for winter

WE TALKED ABOUT storing tender ornamental plants recently, but what about garden vegetables, now that colder nights and days are not so far off? Each..

August 8, 2019

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dan koshansky’s refrigerator dill pickles

NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO ALMOST TO THE DAY, I ate pickles for breakfast with lovely Dan Koshansky, a retired railroad conductor and an organic gardener..

July 25, 2019

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what to plant now for a fall vegetable garden

I’M WATERING THEN SHADING the garden beds where peas grew fat and sweet until early July, when their time was done. The heat and calendar..

July 6, 2019

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raised beds, grow bags and more, with epic gardening’s kevin espiritu

I BUILT MY OLD-STYLE wooden raised beds for vegetables about 30 years ago, and they’ve served me well. Lately on social media, I love seeing..

June 29, 2019

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okra: beautiful, resilient, and surprising, with chris smith

IF YOU HAD TOLD ME I’d be reading an entire book about okra, and often laughing out loud delightedly in the process, I’d have said,..

May 10, 2019

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don’t stop now! succession sowing of vegetables herbs, flowers, with niki jabbour

WHEW! YOU FINALLY got everything into the ground, transplanting every little seedling and sowing every seed, and it’s time to sit back and pat yourself..

FROM THE WEEKLY PODCAST

how conservation starts in your yard, with doug tallamy

‘NATURE’S BEST HOPE’ is the title of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s new book, and the subtitle reads like this: “A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard.” In other words, you and I are nature’s best hope. Our actions count, and they add up to counteract a fragmented landscape and other challenges to the survival of so many critically important native creatures and the greater environment we all share.

Doug Tallamy’s 2007 book, “Bringing Nature Home,” has been for many of us a wake-up call into the entire subject of the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife, and now with more than a decade of additional research insights, he goes further.

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