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Tag: Grow Your Own Food
This Tree Grows 40 Fruits, Produces All Summer Long
Artist Sam Van Aken uses grafting techniques to create his Tree of 40 Fruit. It’s a stone fruit tree that produces different fruits all summer.
California’s Neighborhood Food Act is in Effect
Want to turn your front yard into a radish garden? Or how about making that empty lot you own into a pumpkin patch? If you live in California, the recently [ … ]
The Drunken Botanist – Book Review
The Drunken Botanist examines the wide variety of plants that have been distilled and fermented throughout the ages. It will appeal to gardeners, drinkers, and anyone who likes food history.
The Artist, the Cook and the Gardener – Book Review
The Artist, the Cook, and the Gardener: Recipes Inspired by Painting from the Garden by Maryjo Koch is a gorgeous cookbook. This contemplative book filled with beautiful language, art, photography, and, of course, delicious recipes is perfect for a spring-themed gift or for placing on your own coffee table.
Celebrate Summer by Sharing Your Harvest
Celebrate your summer harvest by remembering to donate to your local food bank.
Gardening for Beginners: Fall Gardening 101
It might seem a little bit early to talk about planning and planting for fall, but you actually need to start sooner than you think!
More Food Garden Eye Candy
It’s been warm and rainy here in Atlanta, and our food garden is blowing UP! I headed out to the garden with my camera the other day to take some shots of our food-growing progress, and I’d love to hear what’s growing in your gardens! Tell me about what you’re planting or planning to plant in the comments. If you have photos, feel free to share links, too.
Poison Hemlock: Dangerous Garden Invader
Container gardeners don’t need to worry as much about weeds and pests, but if you’re growing your food in the ground sometimes things pop up in the old garden that are not so welcome. That’s not always bad, right? Sometimes you get delicious volunteers from the compost bin. If the uninvited garden guests are weeds, you just pull them out and move on. But there’s one weed that pops up in food gardens that’s a little bit tricky and can be dangerous: poison hemlock.
Using a Cold Frame to Start Your Summer Garden
Using a cold frame is a fantastic low-tech way to start your seeds for a summer vegetable garden. Even if you have a long growing season, you’ll have your yummy veggies on the table earlier in the summer than if you wait to sow your seeds directly in the soil.
Saving Heirloom Seeds Through Crowd Sourcing
Just like rare wild plants and animals, food crops can disappear forever. A network of volunteer growers across the country are working to save little-known edible plants from extinction.
How to Grow and Transplant Your Seedlings
So you’ve started your seeds indoors to get a jump on spring, and like magic they are beginning to grow. Now you’ve got seedlings. The excitement of having grown your own starts for your vegetable garden can turn into panic if it is still too cold to plant them in the garden…
Smart Gardener: Online Gardening Tool Helps You Grow Food
If you’re one of the 43 million Americans who loves to garden or are thinking about gardening our pals at Green Living Ideas have an awesome tool for you to try!