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Tonight on PBS: The Botany of Desire

Are you as excited as we are about the PBS premiere of "The Botany of Desire"? Based on Michael Pollan's best-selling book of the same name, the documentary examines the relationship between people an...

Can I Cook With My Mostly-Green Rhubarb?
Good Questions

Q: I'm growing rhubarb in my backyard and despite warnings that it's not worth harvesting the first year, mine is huge and I think I might harvest it after all. However, mine isn't completely red as...

Hello, Fall! A Look at Martha Stewart's Pumpkin Patch

We're always inspired by Martha Stewart's gardens (and, of course, jealous of her gardening staff and vast expanse of property). But this display of pumpkins and gourds just feels like the perfect i...

From the Herb Garden: Marjoram

Do you like marjoram? It seems to us like a sleeper herb - the one that gets picked up just to round out your herb collection but then WHAM! The next thing you know, you're using it in everything! At ...

What Can I Do With All My Basil?
Good Questions

Q: HELP! I planted basil from seeds this year, and wound up with about 60 basil plants that are in full swing right now. I can't keep up with all the beautiful basil leaves they're producing, and my f...

Humble Herbs: In Praise of Parsley

It's easy to write parsley off. Parsley is just the requisite garnish that decorates plates at fancy restaurants. In our own cooking, we tend to pass over parsley in favor of herbs with bolder, bigger...

How Are You Using Your Late-Season Tomatoes?

Tomato season is drawing to a close in many parts of the country, so it's time to eat them while you have them, or put them up for the winter. We want to know: what are you doing with your tomatoes? ...

Who Knew? 75 Things You Can Compost

We have been composting kitchen scraps and garden clippings for awhile now, but Planet Green's recent list of "75 Things You Can Compost, But Thought You Couldn't," opened our eyes to a whole new worl...

New Video: The Story of the White House Garden

The White House released an inspiring new video this week, starring First Lady Michelle Obama, Chef Sam Kass, and the Bancroft Elementary students who helped plant the kitchen garden. Click through to...

Another Garden Surprise: Hello, Cauliflower!

I feel like I am being endlessly surprised by my garden this summer. Sometimes it just blows my mind that, yes, you put a seed into the ground, and it grows. Into something you can eat. Wait, how did ...

From the Herb Garden: Chervil

Chervil is another herb that we'd really like to use more often, but can never think how. It looks like parsley and tastes like mild basil, but it's flavor has a tendency to evaporate into thin air in...

Eating Simply on Vacation with Margaret Roach

We're finally on vacation... a working vacation to begin. First stop was the Berkshires, to tour the kitchen of Margaret Roach. Margaret is the head honcho in chief of the garden blog, A Way To Garden...

The Classic Caprese Salad

Our tomatoes are blessedly blight-free and in full form right now. We've been picking candy-sweet Pink Caspians and tangy Early Cascades, and of course our favorite way to eat them is in a caprese sal...

What Are You Preserving This Summer?

We know that many of you are avid canners, jammers, picklers, and preservers. So we're curious: Have you "put up" anything yet this summer, and if so, what? ...

Too Many Zucchini? Swap Them Away Via VeggieTrader

Are you awash in pole beans, with nary a ripe tomato? Or perhaps you have a bumper crop of tomatoes and no zucchini this year. What if you could find a fellow gardener nearby who wanted to swap you so...

From the Herb Garden: Rosemary

Take one look at the imposing needle-like leaves on a rosemary plant, and you might wonder how anyone ever thought to put this herb in their mouths! But crush a few of those needles between your finge...

Best Garden Surprise: Fairy Tale Eggplants

How are your gardens growing? We haven't forgotten about gardening here, even though we haven't talked much about it lately. Here's one of the best surprises from my little garden this summer: eggplan...

From the Herb Garden: Tarragon

Tarragon is one of those herbs that we hardly ever think of using until we come across a recipe that specifically calls for it. We've even grown tarragon in our herb garden, only to reach the end of t...

Two Ways To Freeze and Preserve Fresh Herbs

Our favorite garden blogger, Margaret Roach of A Way To Garden, is spearheading a fun summer event called Summer Fest 2009 — a celebration of summer gardening, cooking, and fresh food. One of ...

Goodbye Tomatoes? Widespread Fungus Killing Off Crops

Those of us who live in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic need to enjoy our tomatoes while we can. A fungus called late blight—a strain of which caused the Irish potato famine—is rapidly destroying lo...

Playing a Potato Expert on TV with Sean Conway

I spent yesterday on the set of Cultivating Life, a television show about reconnecting with the land. No, no big sound-stage; no wardrobe and make-up trailers (which might have helped curtail my copio...

Ledge Veg: Window Box Gardening

With an estimated 600 acres of window sill growing space across the country, the UK's National Trust just launched a campaign encouraging apartment dwellers to plant window box vegetable gardens. Whil...

Homemade Sauerkraut: A Century-Old Family Tradition

I've escaped to the family farm for a bit this summer, just in time for making sauerkraut. It's an annual summertime tradition carried on by my parents as it was by my grandfather, great grandfather...

Garden 2009: Midsummer Squash Vine Takeover!

How is your garden growing? Consider this a quick check-in on how your baby tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, and other garden goodies are doing. So many of you showed us your awesome gardens in the My Gre...

My Great Outdoors: April's Aromatic Herb Beds

Name: April Location: Long Beach, CA Type of space: Herb and vegetable garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I love being able to go outside and watch my vegetables and her...

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