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Category: Gardening
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Hooray for Gourmet Potatoes!
This is the first week of our Gert’s Garden 2 Go© delivery that includes gourmet potatoes. We call them gourmet because they are. Small spuds of varying colors and textures, specially bred to be small and flavorful. Of course, we like “new” potatoes too. What is the difference? New potatoes are from varieties like Kennebec,…
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Spring Garlic—What Is It And How To Use It
Spring Garlic is similar to green onions in appearance, but with a mild garlic flavor. As a bonus, they are prolific growers, so you can have these year after year.
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What I Did With the Tomatoes
Last week I posted about using up the last of the home grown garden tomatoes. As part of the final garden tasks for the year, the plants were removed and the last green tomatoes harvested. These slowly ripen in the garage allowing us the opportunity to have fresh, local tomatoes through a winter freeze. Attempting…
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Tomatoes in November?
Yes! We still have a few ripe garden tomatoes. It has frosted here in Central Illinois and the tomato plants are gone from the garden which means the remaining green and half ripe ones are in the garage to slowly finish ripening. End of the season tomatoes are not sizeable enough for slicing, although diced…