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Continue reading →: Oriental Garden: What Did Well, What Did Not
I am already starting to switch gears into thinking about ideas for next year’s garden, but I wanted to wrap up a few thoughts on the vegetables we had in our Oriental Garden this year. We had a wide range of things, and some of them (literally) overshadowed the others.…
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Continue reading →: What’s Up with the Gingers?The raised bed that had the ginger family plants really did pretty well by the end of the season. They typically take longer than one growing season to produce mature rhizomes, so we decided to dig them up and save them for next year. The plants all grew well this…
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Continue reading →: Pepper-palooza: More Possibilities for PeppersI shared a few pepper recipes using our garden peppers the other day, but I wanted to show some other options for using the peppers as well. Dehydrating Peppers A lot of hot peppers are stored or used once they are dried. The most reliable way to dry peppers is…
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Continue reading →: Pepper-palooza: Pepper Recipes to TryI finally had time to try a few recipes using some of our less common peppers in the Demo Garden. I still have a few other recipes I want to try as well. Red Paprika Pepper Cream Sauce I may have to plant hot paprika peppers myself, just so I…
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Continue reading →: Tomatoes: What Did Well, What Did Not
I’ve heard from a lot of gardeners this year that they had a poor tomato year. On one hand, I know that some of my tomato plants at home struggled as well. On the other hand, most of our plants in the Demo Garden did very well. My theory is…