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Continue reading →: Those Rattail Radishes
We removed the remaining plants from the Demo Garden today, and I’ll share those pictures and thoughts with you over the next few weeks. I wanted to start with this one, though! The Rattail Radishes are grown for their edible seed pods that can be stir-fried or eaten raw. From…
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Continue reading →: New Online Seed Savers Exchange
Most of you probably know by now that I get really excited about different, strange, or new vegetable varieties. (Maybe the reality is that I get bored easily with the regular varieties.) Of course, there is no better way to have crazy varieties to try than to look at heirloom…
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Continue reading →: Purple Peacock Sprouting Broccoli
Given the lesson of the other sprouting broccoli, when the Purple Peacock Sprouting Broccoli started putting on a head, I took it off fairly soon. The head definitely has a purple cast to it, although I think it is really just a deeper, darker blue-green than normal broccoli. As you…
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Continue reading →: Fall Root Vegetables
Ah, the best laid plans…! Obviously I didn’t get very many posts done this week, since a whole host of other things claimed my attention. I think that we are probably done with Friday PhotoEssays until next year unless we get some picturesque weather. In a month or so, we…
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Continue reading →: Sweet Potatoes with Pecan Gremolata
1 large sweet potato (about 1 lb) 3 Tbsp butter 1/2 cup Pecan Gremolata Garnish: fresh parsley sprigs 1. Wash your hands and work area. 2. Peel sweet potato, and cut lengthwise into 1/8-inch thick slices using a mandolin. Stack 4-6 potato slices on a cutting board; cut lengthwise into…