Garlic Mustard Plant Identification & Foraging
Garlic Mustard is an edible wild plant food. Here is video on how to cook garlic mustard, we made a great pesto recipe. You can forage for the leaves of Garlic Mustard, but…
Nettles Plant Identification & Foraging
Nettles, aka Stinging Nettles are a wild food that is edible. Here is video about how to cook nettles for a pesto recipe we made. Foraging for nettles is easy, they grow like…
Drip Irrigation Helps This Sidewalk Container Garden Grow
I ran across this soaker hose drip irrigation setup in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Using drip irrigation to water a container garden is great, as the soil in containers dry out fast, especially those…
Aquaponics Aquaculture How To Update : Rick’s Column
Aquaponics and Aquaculture How-to has been taking up a lot of Rick’s time. Below Rick tells us what he has learned about how to build an aquaponics system. Eric I haven’t been around…
Grow Mushrooms In Your Yard, Backyard Oyster Mushroom Spore Inoculation
Growing mushrooms in my yard, instead of having to go foraging for mushrooms, is a goal of mine. Mushroom growing is not rocket science, but for mushrooms to grow, the environment must be…
Nutrient Fade
This is why we grow as much as we can ourselves, grow them organically, and grow heritage varieties. If we don’t grow our own food ourselves, we know the people who grow it for us….
Don’t Dump Me, Bro’
You can hear the discussion I had with Eric on “Tom Sawyer Composting” here on Gardenfork Radio. Here’s the leaf composting bin I created just yesterday. 106 bags of leaves (mostly 30…
Hotbeds
A couple of weeks ago Eric and I were talking on Gardenfork Radio about his new DIY Cold Frames video, and I mentioned winter gardening in hotbeds. I’d seen some hotbeds in the garden…
OMG – What Have I Done?
You’ve signed a two-year lease on what? Have you taken full-moon-French-leave of your senses…again? I can tell…She, Who Must Be Obeyed, is intrigued with the idea of my going into business for myself….
Can You Eat That?
She, Who Must Be Obeyed, wanted “a-big-mess-o-greens” last night…and cornbread. “Fine. You pick’em, I’ll cook’em.” So a while later she comes back with a big-mess-o-mess. “What have you done?,” I ask as I…
Free Leaf Compost, Thank You Neighbors – Rick’s Column
Tomorrow’s trash day and metal scavengers are already circling the neighborhood, but I’ve found GOLD! Gold, I tell ya’. My neighbors do all the work of sweeping and bagging these leaves for the…
How to plant garlic for Small Scale Farmers
Planting a few rows of garlic in your home garden is pretty straightforward. To plant garlic for a market grower is a bigger deal. I was asked by a neighbor who sells garlic…
How to Deer Proof Your Yard : GardenFork Radio
If you want to keep deer from eating your plants, plant plants that the deer don’t eat. Ruth Rogers Clausen, author of 50 Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants, joins us to talk about how…
Super Seed Potatoes, Growing in the Garden
Last fall I helped a neighbor dig a bunch of potatoes, and we were given a few bushel baskets of potatoes for our efforts. The potatoes were pretty darn simple to harvest, as…
Our Apple Trees Blossom
This hasn’t ever happened before, but all our apple trees are blooming this spring. Usually there are a few that don’t bloom. At least two of our trees bloom biennially. Here is the…
