There is so much information to digest and respond to in the expanse of a mid-summer garden.
Tag: fennel
NATURE’S TURN: Sow crops for late summer, autumn and winter food. A new book inspires
In many area gardens, beds of early beets, carrots, turnips and garlic bulbs will be harvested between now and early August, challenging us to choose short-season and frost-hardy varieties for continuous planting.
NATURE’S TURN: On the cusp of winter, Turtle Tree Seeds turns toward spring
Last week, on the eve of the deepest chill and wind chill of the season, I reached into reserves of dogged determination to secure my harvest of fennel, dill, peppers, French sorrel, amaranth and most of the turnips.
NATURE’S TURN: Autumn wind and other wild wonders around a garden
Autumn’s full-grown clumps of grass do dance with the wind more fluidly than young, short ones. Weighty, seedy flower heads pull on the season’s longer stems, exaggerating their bowing and bobbing.
NATURE’S TURN: Garden as wellspring of vitality
The unpredictable experiences that occur while gardening can be the most engaging or challenging to our senses, our emotions, intellects and aesthetics.
NATURE’S TURN: Sow tender crops, harvest perennial edibles, listen near the flowers
Flourishing now, perennial green onions, French sorrel, rhubarb, woody herbs, onion and garlic chives add savory vitality to springtime dishes.
NATURE’S TURN: Soup, salad, side and sweet: Garden-Grown
It has been tedious sorting through garden vegetables that were either stuffed into the refrigerator or placed in a cold room when brought in from the precipitous advent of frigid temperatures and arctic winds three weeks ago.
COOK’S CORNER: Grilled cowboy-cut rib eyes
Today, I’m grilling 2 cowboy rib-eye steaks to celebrate my 73rd birthday and my 48th year grilling.