How to grow Heirloom Tomatoes at White Flower Farm

Share this post on your Facebook pageWe recently went to White Flower Farm and interviewed Scott Diagre of Tomatomania! about heirloom tomatoes. Very interesting, and they had a ton of different kinds of heirloom tomatoes. Mortgage Lifter, Prudens Purple, Aussie, all sorts.

How to build Raised beds : questions

Share this post on your Facebook pageI have a diagram to post on how to build the beds, meanwhile viewer mail:
If I’m making a “1 tiered” raised bed, do I need to kill the grass underneath the raised bed first or can I just placed the raised bed in the spot I want, over the [...]

Garden cart plans and agrarian blog

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I ran across Herrick’ blog about his book and gardencart: The Whizbang Gardencart Blog a while back and wrote a post about it in my Web 2.0 blog, and I wanted to share it with you all here as well.
Herrick has written a book about how to make your [...]

BBQ in Brattleboro, VT

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My friend Eric Skiff went to Top of the Hill Grill in Brattleboro, VT and shot a video [...]

Raspberries, Trilliums, and Larbrador Retrievers

Share this post on your Facebook pageA few photos from this weekend in the garden.

carrots are planted

The field of garlic at our friend’s house

Trilliums in bloom

You know who.

Tomatoes set out in wall o waters ( or wall-o-waters )

Raspberry transplants coming up.

How to make Carbonara Recipe

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This is a really simple dish, the trick is to make sure the eggs do not become scrambled eggs.
6 ounces of thick cut or slab bacon
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups grated Parmesan cheese. do not buy pre-grated, it doesn’t tast great.
1 box ( 1 lb ) spaghetti ( i prefer [...]

Saturday in the Garden

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I’ve been doing everything today, gardening, truck repair, greenhouse cleaning, seed starting, transplanting, and oh yeah, throwing the [...]

Roasted Garlic Soup

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Here is the recipe for Roasted Garlic Soup from “The Ultimate Cookbook” by Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarborough. This is a great book, please order it from your local bookstore.
Roasted Garlic Soup
Here’s a garlicky version of French onion soup, all the onions replaced by
garlic and their near kin, shallots. [...]