admin | May 8, 2010
It’s time to harvest chives and garlic chives before they flower. Just use scissors to snip off the plant leaving 2 inches of foliage so the plant won’t go into shock. Chive plants are very hearty and will start producing new springs in a few days. I actually waited too long because my chives do [...]
admin | September 7, 2009
Our garden is overflowing with broccoli and cauliflower and there is just so much you can eat before looking for ways to preserve it for later use. One of those ways is to freeze cauliflower or broccoli and store it up to 9 months in the freezer. You’ll want to pick only just ripened vegetables [...]
goodfood | March 26, 2009
I had 3 potatoes that started to sprout so I left them in the wicker basket where I keep my potatoes, onions and garlic. These were red potatoes and they started developing leaves instead of the regular root sprouts that I am accustom to seeing in regular potatoes. So I let the new growth develop for a [...]
goodfood | February 22, 2009
Growing Sprouts at Home The cost of sprouting your own seeds cost substantially less than buying them fully grown from a store. Prices on fully grown alfalfa sprouts at a supermarket can cost anywhere from $1.69 to $2.99 for a plastic pint container. Alfalfa seeds are lightweight and an 8 oz bag of organic alfalfa [...]