Home Gardening
Welcome to Home Gardening!Home gardening is the next logical step in creating healthy meals for your family. There is a sense of pride in bringing food from seed to table; it's local food in its purest sense. Not to mention, there's no guessing about what is in or on your food - you grew it! One of the best things about growing food with your kids or grandkids is the precious time you will get to spend with each other. You're teaching them about stewardship, sustainability, and caring for our planet. These garden lessons will last a lifetime. Home Gardening editor: Chris McLaughlin
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Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Sunday, 08 August 2010 02:15 Written by Chris McLaughlin Sunday, 08 August 2010 00:00
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I've been eating tomato sandwiches for many years, and I don't even bother with them if I don't have heirloom tomatoes on hand. Especially Brandywine, Caspian Pink, Pineapple, Black Prince...ohhh so many tomato flavors to try on for a refreshing summer lunch. Most of the heirloom tomatoes are beginning to ripen now; being generally later-maturing than many of the hybrid varieties - but so worth the wait!
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Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 May 2010 01:43 Written by Chris McLaughlin Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:00
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Nothing enhances your culinary dishes like fresh herbs from your home garden. But once herbs are harvested, their flavor and texture begins to fade. To keep their flavor longer and keep wilting at bay, treat them like you would cut flowers. |
Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 December 2009 20:03 Written by Chris McLaughlin Wednesday, 16 December 2009 20:00
While your garden is sitting around waiting for the next growing season to begin, put it to work for you. Start thinking about amending your soil in the winter months so you'll have great soil for your seedlings come spring. There are a couple of ways to go about adding organic nutrition to your garden bed.
Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Monday, 12 October 2009 19:51 Written by Chris McLaughlin Sunday, 11 October 2009 16:10
Fall may be upon us but there's no reason to stop growing fresh food. One of the easiest herbs to grow in a kitchen windowsill are chives. Chives are a versatile herb because unlike bulb-type onions, the flavor is very delicate. This makes them the perfect addition to dishes where you'd like a little zing but still want to keep things on the mild side.
Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 September 2009 17:22 Written by Chris McLaughlin Wednesday, 09 September 2009 13:18
Summer savory (Satureia hortensis) is one of the oldest known
culinary herbs. Historically, it's been touted as a food that benefits
the entire digestive tract and was extremely popular with the Greeks
and the Romans.
Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 July 2009 19:12 Written by Chris McLaughlin Tuesday, 14 July 2009 00:32
Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) or Sweet Melissa is an ancient herb belonging to the mint family (hence its square stems).
Its praises have been sung by the Greeks as far back as 2,000 years ago as both a medicinal herb for feeling melancholy, cold sores, fevers, and headaches. Cosmetically, Lemon balm has been used as a facial steam and as an astringent for oily hair.
Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Saturday, 19 December 2009 22:30 Written by Chris McLaughlin Tuesday, 30 June 2009 15:32
Before you buy the jean overalls and have a dump truck of manure dropped on your driveway, you need to figure out just what it is you’d like to plant in your first garden.
Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Friday, 06 November 2009 19:27 Written by Chris McLaughlin Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:13
When I think about planting a fruit tree in my home garden, a lemon tree is the last one that crosses my mind. Sure, I’ve caught the intoxicating scent of the lemon blossoms from next door and my grandma always had one in her garden, yet I never thought about making room for one in my own yard. After all, I didn’t really need one right?
Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Friday, 19 June 2009 01:46 Written by Chris McLaughlin Thursday, 04 June 2009 22:38
Onions (Allium sepa) are one of those food staples that are hard to do without. Between that and the choices you’ll have for sandwich onions, cooking onions, red, yellow or white onions, there are enough convincing reasons to always have them in your garden.
Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:14 Written by Chris McLaughlin Sunday, 31 May 2009 12:27
What is fall without the special harvest of the winter squashes? When
we think of planting our gardens, winter squashes (Curcurbita spp.) are
often overlooked, and yet they are so delicious as meals and even more
nutritious than their summer cousins.
Tips and Advice - Home Gardening
Last Updated on Sunday, 31 May 2009 12:29 Written by Chris McLaughlin Thursday, 21 May 2009 16:25
Home grown asparagus tastes best because of the rapid loss of flavor once the spears are harvested. Asparagus growers swear by the vast difference between store-bought and home-garden grown.
It’s unfortunate that while gardeners are quick to try their hand at tomatoes, potatoes, or radishes they’re sometimes hesitant when it comes to planting asparagus.
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