Garden to Table
Wild roses are beautiful and you can harvest both the rose petals and use the rose hips later in the season. Living in the Canadian mountains, it didn’t take me long to start noticing how many useful plants grew in the area. We began harvesting elderflowers and elderberries, wild thimbleberries, wild edible weeds and soon…
Preserve the taste of summer with home brewed plum wine! We made plum wine a couple of years ago using yellow plums, and this year as we have a very large Italian plum tree we’ll be doing the same this summer. I imagine the taste and color will turn out quite different. If you use…
Harvesting fresh tomatoes is one reason why many people start gardening. Preserving the taste of summer is the next best thing to eating fresh, and canning garden tomato salsa and enjoying it during the winter months is a true delight! Here’s a recipe for canning fresh tomato salsa from a wonderful book called ‘Food in…
One of the gardening challenges I hear is that a crop flowers but never gives any harvests. This is often a pollination problem, but not all crops need pollinators to give you yields. Crops that produce leafy greens, roots or any of the cabbage family like cauliflower or broccoli don’t grow from flowers, instead, they grow…
I was gardening for years before I stopped to think about whether or not my garden was costing me money or providing me with healthier and cheaper organic produce because of my efforts. Of course, when you’re starting out your garden will cost you more money because you have to build new garden beds, buy soil…
Gardening is hard. Really hard. You get the weeds under control one week and then next week they’ve taken over again. It can feel like way too much work just to harvest fresh food from your garden. You spend hours choosing seeds, sowing your crops, watering, growing, tending to the weeds and then you finally…
