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Continue reading →: Daikon Radish Pickles
I did make the Daikon/Watermelon Radish Pickles for our Master Gardener Potluck today. I sliced up Green Meat radish, regular daikon radish, and a bunch of Mantanghong/Watermelon radishes. Then I threw in some salt, sugar, pepper, coriander, dill, allspice, garlic salt, onion powder, rice wine vinegar, red wine vinegar, and…
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Continue reading →: Preparing for Cold Weather
The most recent weather forecast shows that it is supposed to get down to 35 tonight, 29 on Thursday night, and 30 on Friday night. Now, most of the greens we have in the garden will tolerate those temperatures with minimal problems. However, I’m planning to cover two of the…
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Continue reading →: Growing Great Greens for Market Class
I realized this morning that I hadn’t posted anything about the upcoming classes we’re having in the next couple weeks. The main class I want to promote is the Growing Great Greens for Market class that is next Tuesday evening (Nov. 9, 2010). We’re starting with dinner at 6 pm,…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
Since we did some garden cleanup this week, I thought I’d share some of those photos. It is always sad to pull out plants, but it is nice when the garden looks clean too! The first thing to go was the tomatoes. The plants still had a number of tomatoes…
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Continue reading →: Pesto and Asian Pesto
Yesterday I told you about a couple of different methods of saving/preserving basil for the winter. Of course, the most common way to preserve basil is what we’re going to talk about today – pesto! Regular pesto is increasingly common and is pretty simple to make. The basic ingredients are…