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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Cabbage Muthias
Our ongoing effort to use up the bounty of cabbages harvested this winter continues. This week, try this recipe for cabbage muthias, an Indian
spiced dumpling that is sure to please.
The recipe recommends using Bob’s Red Mill Garbanzo & Fava Flour, but I didn’t have that, so I used straight Garbanzo flour. I suspect that the dumplings would have held together better during
the process of making them. The end result held together fine, and tasted …
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Do You Bokashi? – Part 1
I’m delighted to present a guest post from Mark Rainville, one of my fellow gardeners at Ocean View Farms, who has been experimenting with E.M.
Bokashi over the last year. This is the first installment to get you started down the fabulous road to fermented tea as fertilizer / soil conditioner. Take it away, Mark:
With all of the home composting options available, the bokashi food scrap fermentation system is one of the easiest and can be the
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Cabbage Ideas for St. Patty’s Day
The latest post from Mar Vista’s Bounty Hunter is up, just in time for your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Find out some great ways to add
this festive green to your meal plan this weekend.
St. Patty’s Day and Cabbage
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Getting Ready for Spring
Spring starts next week, and if you haven’t started gardening, let this be the call to action. Since we’ve been experiencing technical
difficulties with our search feature on Gardenerd.com, we wanted to offer these helpful posts to help guide your gardening endeavors in the meanwhile.
Seed Starting – start seeds indoors for lettuces, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, melons, cucumbers and beans.
Starting Seeds to Perfection
Chicken Update: Blanche, You’re a Woman Now
Many readers have asked that we post regular updates about our new chickens, and since Blanche – our Barnevelder – recently reached a
milestone, it felt like a good time to send one out. Yes, Blanche started laying, and we were there to witness her first day.
It’s not something that you read in books. In fact, it is often not even implied, but what we saw Blanche endure that day was nothing less than a rite of …
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Back to the Roots with Mushrooms
You’ve probably seen them at Whole Foods, or maybe they’ve crossed your path online, but even if you’ve never seen them, the idea is familiar
to you: growing mushrooms in a box. Over the past month or so, we’ve been testing out the Back to the Roots
Oyster Mushroom kit, and we’re eating the results.
It’s simple, the guys from Back to the Roots wanted …
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Ask Gardenerd: How to Build a Mini Greenhouse
A fun question came in to Ask Gardenerd this week:
” I have a big south facing back porch. I would love to make a small greenhouse where I could start seeds and, maybe, even let herbs [over]winter. Do you have ideas for making my own
greenhouse?”
There are many options, from a mini-greenhouse to the full-fledged, brick and mortar English greenhouse. I used to create my own mini-greenhouses by taking tomato cages, laying them on their sides
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Cabbage and Caramelized Onion Soup
‘Tis the season to harvest cabbage, and we’ve been on a campaign to find tasty uses for it this month. Our crop consists of Vertus Savoy
cabbage (with seeds from Bountiful Gardens). It grew well in Southern California, and it was a delight to finally be able to grow an open-pollinated variety of savoy cabbage (hard to find).
Here is another savory and delicious way to incorporate this healthy brassica …
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