Sustainable Gardening and Creative Food
Tarragon Brings Unique Flavor
Tarragon Braves Winter Chill in the Garden When winter wraps its chill arms around the garden many herbs continue to flourish. Among them one that is often overlooked, Tarragon. While it will go dormant for a while during the coldest months, mine doesn’t stop…
Roasted Tomato Sauce Fresh from the Garden — In October!
Roasting tomatoes brings depth of flavor It’s October and the garden is still producing tomatoes — enough to make an awesome fresh tomato sauce! Take that sauce to the next level by roasting the tomatoes to bring a depth of flavor that is a…
How to Bring Tomatillos Tangy Goodness to the Kitchen
Tomatillos are for more than Salsa Verde Tomatillos are a fun plant to grow in the garden and an awesome, tangy addition to dishes from your kitchen! They make way more than just Salsa Verde — although there certainly is nothing wrong with that…
Quince – An Unusual Beauty
Quince is a fruit that is kin to a pear but more exotic. The tree keeps to a modest size with beautiful pale pink flowers in spring and golden fruit in the fall. But where quince really shines is in the kitchen. Quince in…
Final gifts of summer
The garden has its autumn look about it. There is carnage among the sunflowers. We had four separate storms this summer and early fall that came weeks, even months apart but each took their toll. The last one was the final straw. The downed…
Raspberries Glow like Rubies in the Garden
Raspberries glow like red, red rubies peaking through the green leaves. But beware the wicked thorns on these plants as you reach in to coax the fruit off the vines! They taste sweet and tart and are nothing like what you will find in…
Spring in the Garden and Kitchen
Things are kicking into high gear here in the Creekside Garden. Spring is making itself known throughout the garden and having those very earliest of veggies to work with in the kitchen takes me to my happy place. Daffodils are popping up everywhere. The…
Spring is on the way!
Spring is definitely trying to come early this year. It’s still February but lots of daffodils are up, birds are taking on their spring mating colors, the maple trees are a haze of red waiting to burst forth and that means…it’s time to plant…
Winter in the Garden Warming Stock in the Kitchen
Mulching is an essential fall/winter garden task that makes life easier in the spring and helps build good soil. Fortunately winter has been mostly mild in my area so far. Fortunately — because I am soooo late in getting my garden beds mulched for…
The Cadence of the Changing Seasons
Seasons have their own special cadence. Summer seems to last forever. Fall is one of the most amazing seasons and most years, winter seems to come too quickly. This year saw a wonderful slow fade from summer into fall with tomatoes and peppers still…