Salsify Can Satisfy
October 27, 2021
This fall I made the best batch of cooked greens! The secret ingredient? Salsify. Wow!
Chefs (mostly from Britain) warn that the peeled root turns brown “at an alarming rate”. They advise to drop the peeled root quickly…
Desperate Decision → Piddly Persimmon
September 15, 2021
No one in their right mind would buy a Persimmon Tree from Home Depot. Or would they ... if desperate enough?
We ordered an Izu from a well-known nearby nursery in 2019. We received the bareroot tree in March of 2020…
Turn over a new leaf – if you still have one!
August 22, 2021
Our June heat wave hit just after the summer solstice, precisely when the days are the longest of the year. Double whammy! Record high temperatures in June beat our plants to the max. Ouch! We all witnessed the most obvious…
Pruning Points
July 25, 2021
Last week Ann saw a T-shirt with printed words, “I'm pretty sure I am not going to figure it out." Sounds like me and pruning!
I have been watching Ingela masterfully craft the orchard fruit trees for 10 years but, this…
Tried-and-True Tomato Trellising Technique
June 23, 2021
The Florida weave! Is it a type of shawl? A new hair style? Some kind of line dance? No. The Florida weave is used widely and is well thought of as a tomato-trellising technique. Rutgers has a fine explanation online.
Sue’s…
The Handy Dande
May 19, 2021
Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale – origin from Greek words meaning ‘disorder remedy’ - Asteraceae family.
How did we ever come to hate dandelions? Well, who knows. In any case, Europeans thought them valuable enough…
You Need This Kind of Friend
April 25, 2021
An old pal and I were talking about different kinds of friends. We have friends who challenge us, helping us to be the best we can be. Hopefully, we also have a friend who thinks we are wonderful and that everything we do is…
Pruners Without Borders
March 15, 2021
FECO volunteers, Reid and Jacob, both well over six feet tall, used their height last summer to glean a few figs from a tree in Green Lake Park. They agreed that the tree needed care.
This spring, Reid asked me if I might…
Is Anything Happening in the Winter? Don’t yawn yet!
February 16, 2021
“Do ya need any help in the winter?” Visitors stop us from our work and ask this question, with some frequency. My response is, “Yes! But the winter tasks are not very sexy.”
How lucky are we. During these winter…