Gardening

Put those once-a-year garlic scape treats to great use by making homemade basil & garlic scape pesto! So fresh and tasty, you’ll never want to …

“All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. …

SoupAddict looked at the calendar Sunday morning and, realizing it was 10/10/10, decided she could no longer put off addressing her gardens. September was more …

SoupAddict has been dreaming all summer about her potato crop. She planted German Butterball potatoes in a funky container, taking the chance that the thing’s …

Way, way back in November of last year, SoupAddict planted dozens and dozens and dozens of garlic cloves. Seventy-six, to be exact. It was the …

SoupAddict cannot get enough of summer’s fruits and vegetables. Look at these organic strawberries, grown locally by my CSA, Bergefurd’s Farm Market. Have you ever …

Mmmm. Radishes. I do loves me some Springtime radishes. Crunchy, slightly sweet, with a teeny, tiny, refreshing heat, totally munchable. And where did I get …

First, SoupAddict must apologize to email subscribers who received an odd email earlier in the week about a ghost pepper blog post. SoupAddict was installing …

SoupAddict is not the poster child for delayed gratification. More than once has she purchased something locally at a higher price than from, say, Amazon.com, …

One of SoupAddict’s very favorite days of every year is the first really sunny, warm day, when winter’s snow is in the rear view mirror …

January in the Midwest has few redeeming values, in my mind, other than it signals garden planning. Throughout the month, I grumpily turn my back …

Snow fell from the sky for 8 days straight in early January. Sometimes accumulating, sometimes not, but always falling. Even when the sun was shining, …

Oh, those wacky curcurbits. How is it that you look your cucumber vines over at 8pm one evening, finding only little sprites of spikey cukes …

It took a while for Summer to decide to step up and do its thang. But finally, in August, it’s hot. The kind of heat …

It’s been a wet wet wet Spring. Good in some ways. Impatience-testing in others. I love tomatoes. Adore tomatoes. Crave tomatoes. Tomatoes love heat. Adore …

It’s been raining about every other day here in Cincinnati. The gardens love it (so do the weeds; my back, not so much). And the …

Spring flowers never fail to bring a smile to my face and a peaceful sensation to my heart. The first of my bulbs is in …