Purple dead nettle is a plant I overlooked before becoming a gardener, but it has many benefits. I guess I would just totally ignore it when I was a kid? I don’t remember it, though my parents did little in the way of yard chemicals. Anyway, purple dead nettle is like something out of fantasy books. With its anti-inflammatory properties,…
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My lunch break salad came straight from the ground today! Lucky to catch a sunny twenty minutes, I scoured the garden and collected kale, dandelion, Chinese spinach and kohlrabi leaves. I poured some Parmesan garlic dressing on top and devoured it. Growing my own lunch is something special, and nothing beats freshness right out of the ground. I even made dandelion…
I am still seeing nighttime temperatures down to the low thirties—spring is proving chillier than I expected. Despite the cold, though, the strawberries are thriving, even the little ones I planted from seed. I was finally able to pot up my starts and give them more room to grow out in the greenhouse. They’re doing well, and I hope I…
I was pleased to find two ripe mangoes in the produce box delivery this week, as the fruit recently came up in an episode of something I was watching and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. As usual, J had an excellent idea for how to use them in food: make a sweet mango sticky rice to go with Jamaican-style…
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Pinterest has learned over time that I prefer frugal and low-waste or waste-free cooking, and suggested freezer scrap broth to me last year. I immediately fell in love with the concept. You mean I can make SOUP from the pieces of onion, carrot, and celery that I’m just tossing into the compost?! Oh, I’m so in. I told one of…
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