Can You Eat Squash Leaves?
While living on a different continent for a couple months this year, I had the privilege of eating a variety of foods that I’ve never tried before, like njugu …
Roasted Carrots and Parsnips
Vegetable-eating isn’t exactly on my top ten list. And from what I’ve heard, a lot of other people aren’t overly crazy about the process either. I’m not sure, but I have a suspicion that the lack of excitement over vegetables…
What is Baby Garlic?
You’ve probably heard of green onions, but have you ever tried green garlic? Also known as baby garlic, spring garlic, young garlic, and garlic shoots, this luscious springtime treat …
Sweet Potato Harvest – Video
A video of our sweet potato harvest.
How to Grow Your Own Sweet Potatoes
Whoever said diamonds were a girl’s best friend never had a Nancy Hall sweet potato. Not just any sweet potato, mind you. A Nancy Hall is unlike any other sweet tater I’ve ever tasted. A sweet potato is to a Nancy Hall like ice milk is to
Nuts Over Butternuts
The leaves are turning a rich red and lush yellow color, the apples are harvested and filling the house with their lovely apple aroma, the air is cold and briskly pushing its way through our jackets; and we’re
Refrigerator Pickles (Lemon Pickles)
Making refrigerator pickles is uber easy! It only takes minutes of your time. And no store-bought “polysorbate 80, sodium benzoate, natural flavors, yellow 5-spiked” pickle can compare to these fantastically fresh homemade pickles!
Picking Blueberries
This past week we took a trip over to Whitehall to go blueberry picking at Hyatt Blueberry Farm.
Creative Ideas for Vegetable Seed Starting Containers
Spring is here and we’re getting out our garden seeds to get them started so we’ll have little plants ready when the snow melts! Those black garden nursery flats are pretty handy to start seeds in, but did you know…
How to Start Seeds for Your Garden
Everything you need to know to start your own garden seeds.
Small Space Gardening – How to Grow a Garden in Containers
How to grow your own food even if you don’t have garden space.
Heirloom Tomatoes – and a Giveaway!
This is part two in a five part series on gardening here at Jennifer’s Kitchen. About the time April comes around, we are all missing good, homegrown tomatoes. Not the perfectly-round, uniformly-sized, blemish-free, plastic-tasting tomatoes you find at the supermarket. …
Gardening Week and Free 8-Pack Collection of Heirloom Tomato Seeds
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if whenever you had a craving for pesto, you could just reach out the back door and pick some fresher-than-fresh basil leaves? And there’s nothing quite like a meaty, full-of-flavor, heirloom tomato – still warm from…
Fresh Potatoes for Christmas Day
There’s something very satisfying about being able to eat food from your garden when the weather outside is dreary and cold. And there’s nothing quite like freshly-harvested new potatoes for Christmas dinner. How to Have Freshly-Dug Potatoes for Christmas I’m…
Pernickety Parsnips – How to Grow Parsnips
I have tried to grow parsnips from seed for several years with no success. Parsnips are notoriously difficult to grow. First you must use fresh seed – last year’s seed won’t sprout. Then, even with the freshest seeds, you may…
Gathering Wild Persimmons
Fall has officially arrived. How do I know? The wild persimmons are ripe. We are fortunate to have a wild persimmon tree on the edge of our woods producing a sweet delight every fall and early winter. Wild Persimmons vs…
How Does Your Garden Grow?
After seven weeks with no rain and several days with the mercury soaring to over 100°F, the grass was dry, brown, and crunchy, the farmer’s crops were suffering, and even the trees were beginning to shed their leaves. While we…
Blackberry Picking
In a normal year, blackberries around here usually aren’t ripe until July. But this year they were turning a beautiful deep, dark purple by the first week of June. We have several wild blackberry vines on the edges of our…