Showing posts with label Vegetables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vegetables. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Edible Garden Newsletter October 2014

Do you want to grow your own garlic?  Now is the time to get planting and this issue shows you how.  Also learn about growing perennial  vegetables.  Book reviews, recipes, gardening tips and more.  October 2014

Monday, September 1, 2014

Edible Garden Newsletter September 2014

Did you grow a tomato you loved and would like to save the seeds for next year?  Have you always wanted to start a composting system?  Our September 2014 Edible Garden Newsletter provides simple answers to these questions.

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Cream of Tomato Soup Recipe

Cream of Tomato Soup is a simple and delicious way to create a family favorite.  This recipe originated in teh 1930's from a Great Great Aunt.Read more

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Edible Garden Newsletter August 2014

When is my produce ready?  How do I store it for the winter?  Read all about it in our August 2014 newsletter.

Friday, August 1, 2014

City Farmer--Adventures in Urban Food Growing--Book Review


City Farmer--Adventures in Urban Food Growing--Book Review. Although the reviewer got off to a slow start, this book turned out to be both entertaining and informative. Read more.

Spicy Swiss Chard Chips Recipe

Spicy Swiss Chard Chips Recipe.  Are you having trouble getting you kids to eat Swiss Chard?  This recipe might just be the trick to get them to love it.  If your family does not enjoy spicy foods, leave the pepper flakes off.  Read more

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Great Garden Companions--Book Review


Great Garden Companions Book Review.  Make the most from your garden by planting plants near each other that get along.  Read more.

Vegetables from a Country Garden--Book Review



Vegetables from a Country Garden Book Review.  Anstace and Larry Esmonde White were part of my Saturday morning for many years on their PBS show, live from Kemptville, called From a Country Garden.  This book brings more of their down home gardening wisdom.  Read more

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Crops in Pots Book Review

Crops in Pots Book Review.  The Table of Contents is set up like a restaurant menu--each arrangement of plants is another entrée in the never ending "pottibilities".  Read more

Saturday, March 1, 2014

The Urban Food Revolution Book Review

The Urban Food Revolution, Changing the Way We Feed Cities
by Peter Ladner
 New Society Publishers, October 1, 2011, Trade Paperback
 ISBN - 13: 9780865716834; Indigo list price: $18.95

 In “The Urban Food Revolution” former Vancouver city councillor Peter Ladner provides a comprehensive overview of policies and practices that impede or simplify the process of turning vacant or ornamental urban lands into productive space for growing food and communities. Multiple case studies make this both a fascinating read and an invaluable guide for urban food advocates. From communities that ban anything but grass in their residents’ front yards, to new developments constructed around planned communal gardens, Ladner effectively charts the challenges and opportunities for urban food gardening. This book is intended less for gardeners than for those who wish to be politically active in their communities. However, it is highly read-able and provides so many useful and intriguing examples that it is bound to inspire gardeners who have a sense of community spirit.
Review by R. Last

Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton

Saturday, February 1, 2014

From Seed to Table

From Seed to Table, by  Janette Haase, is a practical, month by month guide to eating and growing green.  Read more

Monday, January 6, 2014

Square Foot Gardening

Want to grow lots of vegetables but only have a small area to grow them in.  Try Square Foot Gardening.  Read more

Storing Winter Squash

You have a bumper crop of winter squash.  How can you make your harvest last well into the winter.  Read more.

Late Vegetable Crop

Think all vegetable crops are planted on the Victoria Day weekend.  Think again.  Read more

Beets--Sweet and tender vegetables of early summer

Beets are a very efficient plant.  You eat virtually the whole plant and one seed makes multiple plants.  Read more.

Asparagus--an easy perennial vegetable

Asparagus takes a little patience to get it going but that soon pays off.  Read more

Growing Sprouts

Sprouts!  An excellent source of nutrients you can grow for yourself all year long.  Read more

Starting Seeds

It is very rewarding to grow your own plants from seeds.  Read more

Modern Victory Garden

Didn't Victory Gardens go out of favour at the end of World War II?  Not at all.  Read more

Harvesting Garlic and Onions

Garlic and onions are easy to grow but how do you know when to harvest?  Read more

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