Chard is the bouquet of the Garden! Whether it is all green, a white stemmed Fordhook Giant, or Bright Lights/Neon from white to neon pink, bright oranges and reds, brilliant yellow, it is glorious! And it’s not just another pretty face, it’s a prodigious producer, Cut-&-Come-Again, and again, and again! In our SoCal clime, it acts [...]
Archive for the ‘Recipes’ Category
Growing UP, 4 High Yield Summer Plants!
Posted in Bean, Chard, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Go Vertical!, Green Beans, Indeterminate, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Lettuce, Melon, Mildew, Recipes, Squash, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Sunflower, Tomato, tagged arbor, artistic, bean, build, butternut, cage, chard, community, espalier, Examiner, fence, garden, gourd, growing, harvest, heavy, High, Home Depot, indeterminate, Jack-in-the-beanstalk, kids, La, land, lettuce, mildew, onion, OSH, pasta, pesto, Pilgrim Terrace, Plant, pole, prolific, remesh, salad, sawhorse, shade, small, square foot, summer, sunflower, tomatoes, trellis, twine, upside down, veggies, vertical, vine, walnut, winter, year, yield, zucchini on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From the LA Examiner.com Pasta with fried zucchini, teardrop tomatoes and walnut pesto! Four of the highest yield summer plants per square foot are indeterminate tomatoes, pole beans, zucchinis, and chard! Three of these crops can be grown up, on trellises, in cages, so your land need is small. Chard is prolific, cut and come [...]
Last-of-Summer Fresh Sweet Corn Salad Recipe
Posted in Corn, Recipes, tagged chiffonade, corn, fresh, recipe, salad, summer, sweet on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ingredients 5 ears of sweet corn, husked and silk removed 1/2 cup small-diced red onion 3 tablespoons cider vinegar 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt or sea salt 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper Chile pepper, to taste 1/2 cup chiffonade fresh basil leaves How to make SWEET CORN SALAD..You don’t [...]
August Tasty Harvests, Fall Planting Strategies!
Posted in Broccoli, Cauliflower, Recipes, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged 2011, August, beans, bed, bloom, Brassica, broccoli, Brussel, cabbage, candle, catalog, cauliflower, celery, Christmas, collard, compost, cool, cosmetic, cube, Day, debis, December, dehydrate, dill, fall, Feb, freeze, garden, gopher, Greenhouse, harvest, herb, hot, ice, journal, June, kale, Labor, layout, legume, March, Nitrogen, nodules, November, October, oil, organic, Peas, pesto, pickle, plan, Plant, preserve, raised, runner, season, seed, September, sprouts, strawberry, summer, sweet, transplant, vinegar, weekend, wildflower, winter on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
First, let’s review the next months so you can plan ahead! August Depends on which you like most, summer crops or winter crops. Plant more summer crops you can’t get enough of! If you love winter crops, get a head start! Improve your soil as plants finish, areas become available. Midmonth start cool season SEEDS [...]
Garlic Tip, Zucchini Lasagna ala New York Times!
Posted in Garlic, Recipes, Veggies!, tagged August, crazy, garlic, harvest, July, lasagna, New, recipe, summer, tasty, Times, tip, York, zucchini on July 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
GARLIC TIP: Deciding when to harvest your garlic crop is not an exact science. In the USA and much of Northern Europe garlic is usually harvested in the summer months. The harvesting begins in July and picking can continue all the way through August. Check out this YouTube short: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zcZmDdfano Another Tasty Summer Recipe! Are [...]
Garlic Green Beans Delish!
Posted in Green Beans, Recipes, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Time of Year, tagged almond, bacon, beans, delish, dill, garlic, ginger, green, Hoisin, keep, oil, olive, onion, parsley, pepper, picking, recipe, sesame, shallot, summer, tarragon on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A simple tasty summer recipe! Keep picking your beans; keep them coming! 2 pounds green beans, trimmed 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 3 tablespoons minced garlic 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley 1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon, dill, your herb of choice, or 2 teaspoons dried 1/2 teaspoon salt Freshly ground pepper to taste Or, spice it [...]
-
Read me at Santa Barbara View!
Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!
Gardening Tips!
- All Season Plants
- Amendments
- Antioxidant
- Ants
- Aphids
- Artichoke
- Arugula
- Asparagus
- Aspirin
- Baking Soda
- Basil
- Bat – Seabird Guano
- Bean
- Beets
- Beneficials
- Biodiversity
- Biofumigation
- Birds
- Blood Meal
- Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting
- Bone Meal
- Brassicas
- Broccoflower
- Broccoli
- Brussel Sprouts
- Bunch onions
- Cabbage
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Chard
- Cilantro
- Coffee Grounds
- Collards
- Community Gardens
- Companion Plant
- Compost
- Container Gardening
- Corn
- Cucumber
- Cucumber Beetle
- Cultural Control
- Design – Layout
- Determinate
- Disease
- Disease Resistant
- Early Blight
- Edible Flowers
- Eggplant
- Epsom Salt
- Event!
- Fava
- Fertilizer – Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding
- Fertilzer
- Fish – Kelp
- Flea Beetles
- Floating Row Covers
- Frost tolerant
- Frost, Freeze
- Fungus
- Fusarium Wilt
- Garlic
- Germinate
- Go Vertical!
- Gophers
- Green Beans
- Greenhouse
- Greens
- Guild
- Harvest
- Heat Tolerant
- Heirloom
- Herbs – Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!
- Home Remedies
- Horseradish
- Hybrid
- Hydrozone
- Indeterminate
- Innoculants
- Inoculate
- Interplant
- Jicama
- Kale
- Kohlrabi
- Lasagna Gardening – Food Not Lawns
- Late Blight
- Layering
- Leafminer
- Leeks
- Legumes – Peas, Beans, Fava
- Lettuce
- Manure
- Melon
- Mice – Rats
- Mildew
- Moon Planting
- Mulch
- Mycorrhizae
- Nematode
- Nitrogen
- No-dig
- Nonfat Powdered Milk
- NPK – Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium
- Nutrition Specifics
- Okra
- Onion
- Parsley
- Parsnip
- Peas
- Pepper
- Permaculture
- Pests
- Pollinator
- Potato
- PreSoak, PreSprout
- Pruning
- Pumpkins
- Purslane
- Radish
- Rain
- Raised Beds
- Raspberry
- Recipes
- Rhubarb
- Seed Balls
- Seeds
- Seeds – Planting
- SeedSaving
- Sheet composting
- Skunks
- Snails & Slugs
- Soil
- Solarization
- Squash
- Stacking
- Straw Bale
- Strawberries
- Succession
- Summer
- Summer Plants – Warm Season
- Sunflower
- Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm
- Time of Year
- Tomato
- Tools
- Turnip
- Varieties
- Veggies!
- Verticillium Wilt
- VFN
- Watering
- Watermelon
- Weather
- White Fly
- Winter Plants – Cool Season
- Worm Castings
- Yam
- Zucchini
Planting at the Right Time!
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
