How to Grow Cauliflower:Cauliflower requires 55 to 100 days of cool, even temperatures to reach harvest. Cauliflower can be expensive at the produce counter, but it can be a staple of the kitchen garden with cool weather and regular water. Cauliflower requires two months of cool weather to reach harvest. Protected from frost it is
Red onion braids for winter storing When harvest time comes for each crop, be thorough. The best specimens will go right to the table. What you can’t use fresh store for later use. Crops that are damaged should still be picked and sent to the compost pile. Harvest varies from crop to crop and also
Blackberry. Brambleberry, dewberry, boysenberry, loganberry, marionberry, olallieberry. Blackberry is the collective name for a large group of fruits in the same genus. Blackberries are also called brambles and brambleberries, particularly in England. The boysenberry, loganberry, marionberry, and ollalieberry are common names for popular blackberry varieties or hybrids ‘Boysen’, ‘Logan’, ‘Marion’, and ‘Olallie’. Dewberries are almost
Brandywine beefsteak tomato Beefsteak tomatoes are meaty and tasty in an old-fashioned tomato flavorful way. Serve beefsteak tomatoes on a tomato sandwich, BLT, or picnic-sized hamburger. The beefsteak is perfect for a stand-alone tomato side dish: slice, lightly drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle to taste with sea salt and shredded basil and serve. Mortgage Lifter
Long beans Long beans can be eaten raw or cooked. Sliced long beans can be added raw to salads similar to French haricots verts. Long beans can be steamed or sautéed as a side dish. They can be added to soups and stews. Long beans have a chewy, crunchy texture–more so than snap beans–and a
Baby corn in curry Baby corn sweet and crunchy can be eaten whole out of hand–kernels and cob together. Add baby corn raw to salads, or cook it quickly in stir-fries. Include fresh baby corn among crudités. Baby corn is often included in Thai and Chinese dishes. It looks like miniature corn on the cob.
Days will start to warm in August in the southern hemisphere as winter comes to an end. This is the time to begin planning the spring and summer garden and even starting some crops indoors and out. But keep in mind there may still be some chilly days in the colder regions. Root crops can
Cucumber growing requires warm temperatures of at least 70°F (21ºC). Slicing cucumbers and pickling cucumbers: that’s how cucumbers are divided. It is said that the ancient Roman Emperor Tiberius demanded cucumbers on his table every day of the year. The story does not say if they were slicing or pickling cucumbers; maybe both. The English
Bitter melon can be eaten raw when thinly sliced raw but it’s commonly cooked. Bitter melon can be stir-fried, parboiled, or stuffed. The bitter melon picked at maturity will be bitter. The younger, thinner, shorter and bright green bitter melon will be less bitter tasting. The bitter melon harvest season runs from mid-spring through late
There’s an old rhyme that says, “A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon.” And so it is, as summer arrives later this month in the northern hemsphere. Bees still have their work cut our for them in June even though many fruit blossoms–apricots and plums, for instance–have given way to green
