Recession-Depression Soup
With the Dow heading south like a migrating goose, the fall theme for my kitchen is soup. A cheap and effective way to stretch vitamins and flavor into a worthy recipe, soups can be made easily, with little ...
Rabbit!
Year of the Rabbit and Fall’s Finale at the Family Garden
Giant Caterpillar Attacks Garden; Teaches Children
In a combination of ethnobotany, craftsmanship and madness, this Saturday marked the first annual Halloween celebration at the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden. ...
Indian Summer
This post appeared this week on the New York Botanical Garden’s blogsite, “Plant Talk”
(www.nybg.org/wordpress/?p=772).
Two years ago, two men named Eric built a second home. It wasn’t a vacation spot nor was it particularly accommodating for men ...
One Little Eggplant
This growing season, I’ve started a little project. It’s called “One Pot Pizza,” and it’s based on both square-foot gardening and, well, a love of pizza. In my one pot, I planted a tomato plant, an eggplant plant, oregano and basil.
Alas, ...
Bean Season
Come September in New York, with days alternatively insufferably hot and anticipatorially cold, only the tough (of our veggies) can survive. Broccoli’s gone to flower (you can almost hear it shrieking, “Must be pollinated! Must seed!” as the summer sun begins ...
And Another Thing (Tomato Poetry)…
This poem by Robert Paul Smith is my last farewell to this year’s tomatoes. I found it in one of my favorite books, Farmer John’s Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables. It immediately stuck a chord, for me, as a gardener, ...
Great Grasses
In these long days of Indian summer, we’re often found lying on the lawn. But I don’t like grass. I like thyme and clover. I like tall stands of these zebra grasses. I also like chamomile, a beautiful herb the Romans ...
