Recipes

First Spinach Harvest

by Kathy Purdy on May 26, 2010

This is what the true gardener expects. He knows that 'gardening is eleven months of hard work and one month of disappointment.'
Elizabeth Lawrence

Leeks: A Good Vegetable for Northern Gardens

by Kathy Purdy on October 31, 2008

No real garden should ever show bare earth, much less a sea of bark mulch, which always represents both an opportunity lost and a failure of horticultural seriousness.
Joe Eck, Wayne Winterrowd in Our Life in Gardens

Butternut squash is the best winter squash

by Kathy Purdy on September 18, 2008

In its own way, frost may be one of the most beautiful things to happen in your garden all year . . . Don't miss it. Like all true beauty, it is fleeting. It will grace your garden for but a short while this morning. . . . For this moment, embrace frost as the beautiful gift that it is.
Philip Harnden

Too much sweet corn?

by Kathy Purdy on August 20, 2008

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more.
George Eliot

Tomatoes in the kitchen

by Kathy Purdy on August 14, 2008

…the shivery perfection that winter can bring to our gardens.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

Green Bean Recipes

by Kathy Purdy on August 7, 2008

But here experience speaks: never be too far away from man or machine until the sweep of the last [Bobcat] blade, for those who have watched these men at work will know about the amazing interpretations of a plan that can occur.
Marylyn Abbott

Summer Squash

by Kathy Purdy on July 31, 2008

If you try to think of gardening as a science, it doesn't work. There are too many variables. It's an art.
CR Lawn, quoted in Grow the Good Life

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