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Chocolate mint for tea I am delighted to say that we have officially come to that point in the summer when I eat something I have grown or gathered every single day. Every day! Sometimes it’s part of a main dish, like my grilled rapini pizza from a few weeks back, or like the turnip top quiche I [...] 
Well, after complaining about the weather for the entire month of June, I’m here to complain about all the warmth and sunshine we’ve had so far in July. Kidding, kidding! The last week has been nothing short of glorious. My tomatoes are stretching toward the sun, my broad beans are blooming like crazy, and my snow peas are scrambling over one another to climb their repurposed-wicker-bookshelf trellis. The sudden [...] 
The weirdest thing happened in my mom’s back yard this year. Garlic revenge. You see, two autumns ago, my mom planted a whack of garlic in a raised bed. When it came up in the spring, it looked pretty sickly and unhappy. Mom ripped it out and went on with other things, but she didn’t get around to planting anything else in that bed. Fast forward to this spring, [...] 
Now is the time, my friends, when giant, balloon-sized bags of local greens appear in the grocery shops. I love them so much! They arrive in late spring, and they are just beautiful steamed and dripping with butter on the side of your plate. These greens are often labeled “fresh greens,” or “field greens,” but many people call them “turnip greens” or “turnip tops.” [...] 
When Costa wrote his defense of Japanese knotweed last month, I was very excited. So excited that I almost immediately ran to the lot at the top of my street with a paring knife and filled a paper bag with bright, tender knotweed shoots. I turned them into a tasty soup and was most impressed with myself. The next week, I tried serving plain steamed knotweed spears [...] 
Often, when I’m reading books and blogs by gardeners, I find myself happy with my lot as a downtown St. John’s veggie grower. Sure, I can’t plant out my peppers until the end of June, but, heck, at least I don’t have raccoons to deal with! Or locusts, or squirrels, or opossums, or deer, or tomato hornworms, or gophers, or so many of the pests that make backyard horticulture maddening for [...] 
Greetings, friends! My name is Andreae and I will be posting here on the Root Cellars Rock page whenever I have something interesting to share about my adventures in gardening, foraging, preserving, and cooking local foods (so long as that’s on a Thursday…). I grow vegetables, fruit, and edible flowers in my yard in downtown St. John’s, and I have been known to force my children to gather fallen apples from roadside trees on at least one occasion. I love to cook – some of you might know my name from my old Food Nerd columns in The Scope – and I love getting the canning kettle out and packing away jars of gleaming jams, jellies, and pickles before the snow flies each year. [...] |
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