Ratatouille may be one of the most delicious late-summer garden recipes. Traditional ratatouille includes eggplant, zucchini, onions, peppers and tomatoes, but since the dish is essentially a vegetable stew, you could add green beans, yellow squash or anything else that is fresh and suits your fancy. A while ago, I paid a visit to Sam Kedum’s Nursery in nearby Hastings…
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This year, I decided to edge some of my ornamental beds with parsley. I got the idea from The Wildlife-Friendly Garden. The author suggested parsley be planted as a decoy plant to keep rabbits out of the vegetable garden. I haven’t see a lot of rabbits in the vegetable garden, so maybe it’s working. (I also haven’t seen a lot…
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Almost every garden book starts with the admonition to “get a soil test.” I hate to admit it but in nearly two decades of active gardening, I have never had one — until this summer. Some of my vegetable garden boxes have not been performing as well as I thought they should be over the past couple of years. When…
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A couple of weeks ago, my friend Julie introduced me to Basil Gelato, a creamy, delicious mix of milk, cream, eggs and sugar flavored with lots of whirled up basil from the garden. The one problem with the gelato was the color was just a bit too close to Army green for my taste. I wanted to play with the…
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My small ‘Bali’ cherry tree is especially productive this year. So far, I’ve picked about a gallon and a half of nice cherries off the tree and there are plenty more where those came from. I’ll be picking daily over the next week or so, or until the birds clean out the rest. This is by far the best crop…
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