Eating on the Wild Side Near the beginning of her book “Eating on the Wild Side,” author and organic gardener Jo Robinson offers this recipe for “Going Wild at the Salad Bar:” “Choose from the following ingredients and you will create a wonderfully nutritious salad,” she says, “Top your salad with a dressing made with […]
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Tomato Pico Salsa Recipe (no cooking!) TOTAL TIME: 15 MINUTES Serves: 4 1.5 pounds cherry, grape, or currant tomatoes (about 2 cups) 1/3 cup chopped scallions (white & green parts) 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice (from about 2 small limes) 1 teaspoon Lemon Juice […]
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Shopping for Root Crops When shopping at the supermarket for root crops, we should seek out varieties, of not only potatoes, but also beets, carrots and sweet potatoes, with the darkest colors of skin and flesh, which are indicators of higher concentrations of phytonutrients and therefore are much better for your health. These carefully researched […]
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Tomatoes Wild Ancestors In her book, “Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health,” organic gardener and author Jo Robinson describes wild ancestors of our modern-day tomatoes as “indeterminate—they keep growing all summer long and would mock your every attempt to stake them or confine them to cages.” As we travel in […]
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Beets, our second-ranked worldwide source of sugar after sugar cane, and well-known for their nutritional value, have also been recognized throughout history as the equivalent of nature’s “Viagra.” Using beets as an “aphrodisiac” dates back to the ancient Romans, and the truth of the matter is backed by science, not legend.
Many gardeners, and especially those of us who have been planting seeds for a number of years, are always looking for a “better mousetrap” system that will give us that slight edge on our neighbors so that we capture those bragging rights for the area’s first vine-ripened tomato of the season. If one didn’t know […]
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According to nutritionists at the non-profit, consumer-oriented Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), “the single most important dietary change for most people, including children, would be to replace fatty foods with foods rich in complex carbohydrates, such as sweet potatoes.” CSPI ranked the sweet potato number one in nutrition of all vegetables; and […]
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Like tomatoes, onions are a staple crop in many home gardens, and we realize many of you do not have facilities or areas inside your home to start onion seeds up to three months before planting, so we offer onion plants to be shipped to you at the proper planting time for your climate. We […]
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Tomatoes—those luscious fruits that we slice and dice to top off the perfect burger, sandwich or salad—have forever been “king” of the home vegetable garden. There have always been contests among top local growers to see who can harvest the earliest and who can grow the largest tomatoes, and this spirited competition is likely to […]
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