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Amaranth: Cooking with this Super Grain

November 12, 2009

A Young Amaranth Plant
This year I decided to plant Amaranth, a highly nutritious grain. I saw its ornamental cousin last year and flipped at how beautiful this plant was. My husband tells me that I grow to grow. It does not matter if I intend to eat it. I enjoy the pleasures of watching a [...]

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Extra-Terrestrials Visit my Watermelon Patch

October 6, 2009

Crop circles, unexplained lights in the sky and now strange marking on my Watermelons? ET Phone home? Is there life outside of the Earth and if so, how were they able to make such small circles on my Watermelons?
Okay. Okay. No, I have not gone off the green deep end. I am just joking. (Well maybe.) [...]

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Holy Carrot!

August 18, 2009

If Robin saw the above carrot, he would say, “holy carrot, Batman!” In my previous carrot disaster article, I asked my readers what the heck is going on. Although the carrot on my previous post just looked like a bunch of roots, this carrot looks like a bunch of regular carrots! Talk about a bang for your buck.
I sow my [...]

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Planning Meals Around your Garden: Stuffed Kale Rolls

August 13, 2009

It is funny. I used to plan meals around what my children ate (which is basically hamburger meat and potatoes). One night was tacos, other night was hamburger, and perhaps a third night was spaghetti. I was only “allowed” to serve chicken once a week. Fish, forget about it. Vegetarian? Not in this man cave [...]

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Why Do My Carrots look like Spiders?

July 30, 2009

This is my third year of growing carrots from seed. I learned alot about growing carrots over the last two years, but obviously not enough given how my carrots look. See the picture above. So, what have I learned?
The First Year. The Beginner Year.
The first year, I tried sowing the tiny carrot seeds into the [...]

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Sage Gardening Advice from One whose Learning the Hard Way

May 4, 2009

You know the saying, “do as I say, not as I do?” Here is the skinny of what I learned this year so you don’t repeat my gardening mistakes. I find gardening can be like an Indiana Jones movie. There is peril, unsolved mysteries, and triumph all in one season.
Many of my loyal Green Talk readers (you [...]

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Bring Your Garden on to Win March Madness.

March 30, 2009

When you think of March, do you think about March Madness or do you start dreaming about your garden? In my house, March madness is very alive and well with the final four approaching. (Basketball lingo that I learn from the five men in my household.) For me the color orange represents pumpkins not a [...]

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Greening the Tomato Sauce Process

December 24, 2008

Something so basic, can be so green.
I have always admired my dear friend Paul’s homemade tomato sauce. He is an amazing cook and one of the first ones I call if I don’t know how to prepare something. He knows when I ask him to bring a dish for a party that there is an [...]

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Weeds Are Just Unloved Flowers

September 15, 2008

Weeds are unwelcomed guests in your garden beds, cracks in the sidewalk, and throughout your lawn. We curse them, try and kill them, and they bring out the beast in us as we yank them root and all from the Earth. Personally, I never have so much satisfaction as when I am pulling those suckers [...]

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One Potato, Two Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes More

July 25, 2008

Doesn’t this make you hungry?
Every summer I grow something a little different than the previous year. My first year, I only grew tomatoes. Figuring I mastered tomatoes, even with an ugly hornworm trying to eat my tomatoes for dinner, I was ready to move on to the intermediate leagues and decide to grow go green [...]