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Home gardening is essential to healthy and delicious cooking. There is nothing quite like a fresh heirloom tomato, purple carrot, or crisp cucumber straight out of your own garden. Nor is there anything quite like the peace and balance you get from sticking your hands in good earth and then watching a seed turn into a plant, and that plant then give you fresh gourmet deliciousness. Follow my gourmet garden through planting, growing, and harvest. I will share tips, tactics, and basic gourmet concepts for growing and storing amazing vegetables, along with links for recipes to showcase them.
Recipe: Best Home Canned Thick and Chunky Salsa
I love home canned salsa, especially when made from fresh garden tomatoes and peppers out of my garden. But I’ve [...]
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How to Preserve Garden Peppers
It’s the end of the garden season and your pepper plants are loaded with mature and young peppers. You quickly [...]
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Focus Ingredient: The Amazing Tomato
Few things excite me like a fresh, home-grown, vine-ripened sweet acidic tomato. Put a bunch in a bowl, and I [...]
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Gardening: Growing Chinese Long Beans
Oh my gosh! This is probably the funnest and coolest thing I’ve ever grown in my garden. Chinese Long Beans, [...]
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Fresh Garden Meal
I love summer and the delicious garden bounty that it brings. A week ago I had some friends over for [...]
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Gardening: Harvesting Garlic
I harvested my garlic yesterday, about 2 or 3 weeks late. But that’s the nice thing about garlic, it’s not [...]
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Gardening: How to Plant and Grow Garlic
No gourmet garden is complete without a row or two of garlic. Easy to grow, and full of essential flavors, [...]
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Things are in Bloom in the Garden
What a wonderful time of year this is with such busy botany excitement going on. Flowers for beauty and blossoms [...]
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Vegetable Garden Planting
Winter held on long this year, but it has finally come to an end. The birds are singing, and the [...]
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