Seasonal recipes and gardening ideas that highlight all that’s best in the Autumn.
Have you ever spent hours peeling, blanching, pitting, saucing, cooking and canning something from your garden, only to watch it collect dust on your shelves all year long? I sure have. Many, many times in fact. It’s so easy to be tempted by pretty recipes in canning cookbooks, or fall victim to an aesthetic post…
Now don’t come for me Internet but…I’m not a pumpkin girl. I like to grow pumpkins, carve them, decorate with them and paint my toenails a dusty pumpkin color, just don’t make me eat them. The problem has been, I do LOVE a festive flavor…
Have you ever found yourself asking the question, “Is it too late to…?” when it comes to gardening? Odds are, if you’re anything besides a professional gardener, you have. The seasons seem to sneak up on us so quickly, passing us by before we can…
Every year I find myself with a new roster of favorite dahlias. Regardless of whether or not I’ve managed to dig and store my tubers successfully, or lost them thanks all to a big freeze and a drafty barn, there are always a few which…
Ever end up with an overwhelming amount of those lovely orange orbs when the gardening season draws to a close? Throw some of your garden pumpkins in the oven for a good long roast, scoop out the guts and turn that magic into Garden Pumpkin…
If you are anything like me, sometimes the end-of-summer madness leaves you feeling a little garden burnout. After weeks of drowning in tomato preserving, the last place you want to be is that wild, unkempt and overgrown garden of yours. Sometimes I can’t even bring…