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Posts tagged “garden”

Weekend Meditation: On Not Resisting Nigel Slater

A new Nigel Slater cookbook is releasing in the UK tomorrow. It's called Tender: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch and it's the first volume in a two volume set about Nigel cooking from his garden. I...

Kitchen Spotlight: Allison's Peaceful Cottage

Ready for some simple, serene kitchen eye candy? We just love this little cottage kitchen from Australia; it belongs to Allison and Paul of the charming shop Lark. Take a look, and definitely don't ...

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...

Kitchen Garden Harvest at the White House Today

We just read that there is going to be an early harvest at the White House today: some of that big, beautiful vegetable garden is getting harvested by kids from Bancroft Elementary, the same kids who ...

What Have You Harvested From Your Garden So Far?

It's already the middle of June, and for those of you who started your vegetable gardens earlier this year, have you been harvesting anything yet? I am at my mother's house in the North Georgia Mount...

Do You Have a Shared Outdoor Space?

We've been talking about personal porches, yards and gardens, and earlier today, we asked about your favorite public picnic spots. But what about that gray area in between: the shared outdoor space? A...

Container Gardening Inspiration: Edible Nasturtiums

Are you thinking about starting a garden this year? Do you just have room for a windowbox or perhaps one little pot? Are you trying to choose between a pot of flowers and a kitchen herb or vegetable? ...

Weekend Project: Plan Your Garden!

Is anyone else just itching to get outside and do some gardening? Well, we can't do that quite yet (there's still a foot of snow in our backyard!), but this weekend we're planning on getting out the s...

Book Review: You Grow Girl by Gayla Trail

We're breaking from the norm a bit and recommending a non-cookbook! But with so many of us tending herb and produce gardens this summer, we thought this one was worth the divergence. Gayla Trail is ...

How Does Your Garden Grow? Send Us Photos

See those? Those are our radish plants. It feels like being back in second grade, watching a bean sprout mashed between a wet paper towel and the side of a glass. We're that excited to see our little ...

Our Small San Francisco Container Garden

We don't really have a lot of room to garden at our San Francisco Edwardian row house. Our backyard faces north and doesn't get enough light to grow vegetables, and our south-facing front stoop had v...

If You Grow Just One Thing This Spring... Plant Arugula

We were at the greengrocer a couple months ago, slightly nonplussed because we couldn't find arugula yet. The girl at the counter told us that she just grows it herself; even through the winter, she ...

Survey: How Big Is Your Garden?

It's Garden Month and we're curious about how many of you are gardening this season and how much space you have. We only have containers but we do have some outside space, so we got a little crazy wit...

Good Idea: Growing Potatoes In A Bag

Last week, we opened the kitchen pantry door to grab a new bag for the compost bin, and noticed these strange white tube-like things poking through the shelf. Wha? Upon closer inspection, we discove...

May is Garden Month at The Kitchn

It seems like many of you are gardening this spring and summer, and we're here to grow things right alongside. We're just getting our herbs, greens and radishes started this weekend... ...