Category archives: Grow It Yourself

Growin' Gold | The Golden Delicious Apple

Growin' Gold | The Golden Delicious Apple

10 years ago
Farm To Table, Grow It Yourself
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For months I've been patiently watching yellowish, mottle-skinned fruits swell. Young golden delicious apples bobbing tenuously in the breeze,  testing the strength of my sapling's little bowing branches. The tree, a couple years old now, has survived a transplant from a home I briefly owned and a near girdling winter attack of a winter starved, bark chew[...]
Growing Strawberries For Homemade Strawberry Jam

Growing Strawberries For Homemade Strawberry Jam

10 years ago
Farm To Table, Grow It Yourself
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There are few food moments that really define summer. The first tomato... plump, ripe and red on the vine, destined for a BLT sandwich or a mozzarella and fresh basil union. Sweet corn that doesn't need to be cooked before eating or green beans snapped and ready to eat. But the first moment, for many, is probably the summer's first fresh picked strawberry[...]
Growing nasturtiums. Yep... nah-STUR-shumz

Growing nasturtiums. Yep... nah-STUR-shumz

11 years ago
Farm To Table, Grow It Yourself, How To
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Don’t worry, you’re not alone. I’m pretty sure I learned how to juggle faster than I learned to say “nah-STUR-shumz”. Despite all the pronunciation battles I grow nastyturtles. No surgeons. Nasturtiums.  And I love them. Why? Simple… They’re a trap crop.  If you grow them interspersed with your veggies they’ll hopefully  distract the creepy crawly’s t[...]
Plant Tomatoes With The Trench Method

Plant Tomatoes With The Trench Method

11 years ago
Farm To Table, Grow It Yourself, How To
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If we only needed one reason to garden a fresh summer tomato would probably fit the bill. I’m not going to belabor this point, but the hard red orbs that line our produce aisles are not tomatoes, not even close. Those buggers have had the tomato cross-bred right out of them in favor of storage life, ease of shipping and ease of harvest all at the expense of [...]