We had dinner at Chris and Cheryl's house on Thanksgiving. Amazing food made by amazing people. All we had to do is show up. Nice.
Video: Cold Frame Plans from Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Last week we visited with Patty Hulse at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, who showed us the cold frames they built and use throughout the winter. Very nice. Thanks to my friend Tony, ( the man who knits ) for helping with the camera. An episode on knitting is in the works.
White bean soup with kale recipe
White beans, be they navy beans, yankee beans, great northern beans, are great in soup. This is my really simple fast recipe for white beans. This can be cooked with canned beans or dry beans. Dry beans take longer, but if you have time, great. I use a pressure cooker to cook my dry beans....
Disc Brake Replacement How To GF.TV Video
Its easy to change the disc brakes and rotors on most cars. Here's a disc brake replacement video we made on GardenFork.TV . Use this video as a initial introduction on how to repair the disc brakes. Consult your car's repair manual for the exact procedure for your vehicle. Be sure to jack up your...
Broccoli and Anchovies over Pasta
OK, one here for the fork part of garden + fork. Another recipe from Jamie Oliver's Happy Days with the Naked Chef. Real simple to make, and in the time it takes to bring the water to boil and cook the pasta, you are finished. Anchovies have become a favorite in our house. I have...
Transplanting Plants, How to transplant Hosta plants
Hostas are ubiquitous in our area. They do well in shade, and we have plenty with all the tall trees around us. These plants are very easy to transplant, so if you have some in one area and would like to have more in another, watch how we do it. I've traded hostas with several...
Tomato Hornworms - how to get rid of them - GF Video
Tomato Hornworms can ruin your tomato plants overnight. Here's how to get rid of tomato hornworms. If you notice the leaves of your tomato plant have been chewed to the stalk, and it looks like the plant has been stripped of it's leaves, you have a tomato hornworm infestation. Nothing like coming up to the...
Pork with Rhubarb Video
The boss gave me a new cookbook: Happy Days with the Naked Chef, by Jamie Oliver, and I found a recipe for Pork Filets over Rhubarb. This interested me because i've never seen rhubarb used in such a way before. So this merited a try. We're going to have to improve the lighting in the...
Is Dandelion edible? Dandelion Salad Recipe : GF Video
You can eat what most people call a weed. Dandelion. Here is another foraging video we did on how to harvest and cook dandelion. Wikipedia has some good info on dandelion, though I don't agree you have to always cook it down before eating. There are plenty of us who like it raw. If you...
Grow Lettuce Mesclun, Salad Greens GF Video
Watch this video on how to grow lettuce, mesclun and salad greens and learn how to harvest salad and lettuce. Until the heat of summer knocks them down, loose leaf lettuce is one of those low maintenance pleasures of gardening. There are a ton of varieties of lettuces/salad greens (which we'll go into in future...
How To Cook Garlic Scapes - GF Video
You can cook garlic scapes, who knew? Here is a video I made about how to. Scapes taste great, and are easy to cook. Why Cook Garlic Scapes? To me, garlic scapes are free food. You are growing the plant for the bulb, but up come these curled stems with immature flowers on them. You...
Hilling Potatoes
I have a small patch of potatoes this year, and here we'll show you how I hilled them. Most of the new potatoes that grow from the seed potatoes will grow above the level of the planted seed, so you have to either plant the seed potatoes in a deep trench that you fill in,...