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How to Make Crème Brûlée for Gardeners
Crème Brûlée Recipe for Garden-to-Table Living It’s like a thin coating of ice on a pond. You can’t quite see what’s below…but you know what’s there. The thin, amber-hued sheet of caramelized sugar...
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Planning a Kitchen Garden that Awes (in Purple!)
By Steven BiggsGrazing the Kitchen Garden How to make a kitchen garden you love. My family doesn’t think it’s unusual to hear the back door open and close as I cook supper.They see me come in with a...
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Grow Microgreens at Home for Easy-to-Grow Salad Greens all Year
By Steven BiggsGrowing Microgreens at Home is Easy Pea shoots grown at home: All you need is a handful of dried peas, a pie plate, potting soil, and a windowsill. On a recent trip to the grocery store...
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Nursery List: Fruiting Shrubs, Unusual Fruit, and Hardy Fruit Trees
By Steven BiggsBuying Fruit Trees, Fruiting Shrubs, and Berry Bushes I get a lot of messages from people wondering where to buy fruiting plants. So I hope this list helps you find a nursery with the...
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Seed Company List: Where to Buy Vegetable Seed
By Steven BiggsBuying Vegetable Seeds Online I get a lot of messages from people wondering where to buy vegetable seed. So I hope this list helps you find a seed company with the veggie seeds you’re...
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Vegetable Seed Guide: When to Start Seeds Indoors
By Steven BiggsWhen to Plant Vegetables Not sure when to start planting seeds indoors? If you time planting well, your seedlings will be big enough to survive transplanting into the garden.But don’t...
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Fig Leaf Panna Cotta Recipe
By Steven BiggsAn Easy-to-Make Fig-Leaf Recipe My guests nodded without hesitation when I offered seconds. “Refreshing!” they declared.Cool, creamy, refreshing fig-leaf panna cotta is a nice way to...
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Damson Plums: This Forgotten Fruit Combines Dry, Sweet, Spicy, and Bitter...
By Steven BiggsDisappearing Damsons I remember when Nana started to ration the jam. The damson jam.She was running low on her homemade damson jam. And what was left was reserved for damson tarts—one of...
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Looking for Lemon Trees? Find Out Where to Buy Rare and Hardy Citrus Trees
By Steven BiggsLooking for Lemon Trees? Find Out Where to Buy Citrus Trees I get a lot of messages from people wondering where to buy a lemon tree. So I hope this list of nurseries selling lemon trees...
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Seed Shopping Smarts: Know The Lingo So You Can Get The Best Seeds
By Steven BiggsBest Seeds for Your Needs When You Know The Lingo Get the best seeds for you needs when you know seed terminology. When I worked at a marketing and communications company, there was a...
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Prevent Leggy Seedlings and Grow Vegetable Transplants Like an Expert
By Steven BiggsYour Seedlings are Leggy? Keep Reading! If your seedlings are doing the downward dog, this post is for you.When young seedlings are so fragile that they fold into two, they don’t stand a...
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Shopping for Nut Trees? Find Out Where to Buy Nut Trees and Nut Bushes
By Steven BiggsNut Tree Nursery List I get a lot of messages from people looking for more edible plants for their home gardens and edible landscapes. So I hope this list of nurseries that sells nut...
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Wood Ash for the Garden: What You Need to Know
By Steven BiggsFireplace Ashes for the Garden? I have happy memories of cooking holiday roasts over charcoal with my dad. He taught me how to cook over charcoal—and he drilled in the importance of...
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Vegetables to Grow: 12 Tips to Choose What’s Best for Your Vegetable Garden
by Steven BiggsChoose Which Veggies to Grow in a Garden 12 tips to help you choose vegetables to grow. “Grow radishes!”It’s a recommendation I often hear given to new gardeners. That’s because radishes...
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Edible Flowers: Flowers You Can Eat (AND how to use them)
by Steven BiggsEdible Flowers for Your Garden Bee balm (bergamot) is an edible flower that’s a good fit for a perennial border. When I taught at a college with a farm-to-table horticulture and culinary...
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Guide: Growing Raspberries (high yield, NO fuss fruit)
By Steven BiggsHow to Grow Raspberry Plants At the back of my aunt and uncle's house was a berm made of heavy yellow sticky clay. It was the soil excavated from an addition to their house. The...
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Driveway Makeover! 5 Ideas for Growing a Container Garden for Vegetables
by Steven BiggsMy Driveway Container Vegetable Garden Not enough space to grow everything you want? Be creative! A container garden are a great way to fit more vegetables into your yard.Here’s our...
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A Dragon's Garden for Children (Toothy, Pointy, Spiny Plants!)
By Steven BiggsKids Gardening…with Fun Themes A dragon-themed garden never occurred to me. It was Finn’s idea.Finn and him mom came to my daughter Emma’s talk about gardens for children. She told the...
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Move Over Bedding Plants...and Try These Edible Garden Plants Instead
by Steven BiggsA Few Plants for Edible Landscaping Attractive? Check.Low maintenance? Check.Edible? Check.The peppers were the finishing touch in my front-yard edible landscape. Right by the sidewalk....
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Fruit Bush for an Edible Garden: Nanking Cherry
By Steven BiggsGrow Nanking Cherry The Nanking cherry bush has a spectacular bloom early in the spring. “Dad, someone’s taking a picture of your garden,” shouts one of the kids. It’s early May, so I...
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