Articles tagged: 20minutegarden.com
home & garden: Project Grow events for growing food and wildcrafting
Posted: May 12, 2012Two Project Grow events this weekend will help you welcome the gardening season. Project Grow’s Heirloom plant sale will be held on on Saturdays, May 12 and May 19 in front of The People's Food ... Read more »
home & garden: Taste maple syrup varieties at the Pittsfield Grange on March 11
Posted: Feb 29, 2012The word on the street is that maple syrup time is coming early this year, due to our mild winter. What better way to celebrate the rising of the sap and the coming spring than ... Read more »
home & garden: Learning how to grow potatoes in buckets - one season at a time
Posted: Dec 06, 2011Gardening gives a person the chance to learn from his or her mistakes. A gardener who keeps notes or at least pays attention has the chance to do things better the next season. That belief ... Read more »
home & garden: Plant migration: What did you bring inside?
Posted: Nov 30, 2011Several weeks back, a friend worried about the number of things she needed to do as she prepared to leave town on an extended vacation. Among her many tasks was bringing inside the house plants ... Read more »
home & garden: Field trip to the MSU horticulture gardens will make you want to plan a return visit
Posted: Nov 26, 2011One afternoon this past July, Jim and I headed to an evening meeting in Lansing. We left home early to avoid work traffic and arrived with time to spare. We contemplated our options for just ... Read more »
home & garden: Pilgrim in the Garden: Growing your own food helps build thankfulness for the food system web
Posted: Nov 24, 2011During the seven years we lived in Toronto, we happily celebrated two Thanksgivings each fall. Canadian Thanksgiving, which falls on the first Monday of October, opened the fall holiday season, and we followed it up ... Read more »
Recipe: Zucchini bounty means shred and bread
Posted: Nov 15, 2011A couple of days ago, I had two huge zucchini still hanging around. My plan was to shred them. I was just waiting for some inspiration. I complained to Jim that I wasn’t excited about ... Read more »
home & garden: Gardening Wings: on becoming a Master Gardener
Posted: Nov 12, 2011This past Wednesday evening, Master Gardeners of Washtenaw County and their friends gathered for the Fall Harvest and Recognition Banquet of 2011. It was a swell evening that of visiting with gardening friends and feasting ... Read more »
Home & Garden: How well did your 2011 garden grow?
Posted: Nov 05, 2011Rakes, yard bags, compost piles, empty beds... There’s no denying: the end of the garden season is upon us. One gardening ritual that we make a point of observing is marking and celebrating our triumphs. ... Read more »
home & garden: Emily Pilloton talks to Ann Arbor residents about good design for communities... and chickens
Posted: Oct 29, 2011The other night, we attended a scintillating presentation that connected three of our continuing interests: community, farmers’ markets and chicken coops. The lecture was part of the Penny Stamps speaker series at the Michigan Theatre ... Read more »
home & garden: Broccoli: a cool (weather) crop that keeps on giving
Posted: Oct 25, 2011Broccoli is an easy to grow crop that continues to produce late in the growing season in Michigan. If you’d planted broccoli this summer, you could be having this for dinner, even in late October. Read more »
home & garden: Kale chips: resist these suprisingly tasty snacks no longer
Posted: Oct 18, 2011We had heard about the goodness of kale chips for at least a year or two, maybe longer, but for some reason, we hadn’t got around to making them at home. I had tasted them ... Read more »
gardening: Raised bed experiment leads to a respectable harvest of garlic
Posted: Aug 13, 2011This week I harvested garlic from the Raised Bed 20 Years in the Making, a two-by-three-foot mini-garden we created out of an old shipping crate and filled with compost. Our experiment growing garlic netted a respectable ... Read more »
gardening: Lots of rain means happy cukes
Posted: Aug 02, 2011The up-side of all this rain is that our cucumbers are very happy. I've already made three quarts of refrigerator pickles —with an experimental low-sugar recipe - and numerous batches of tzatziki. Read more »
home & garden: Tips for wise watering in the vegetable garden
Posted: Jul 30, 2011Generally speaking, we try to conserve water and water only when it’s really needed. We live in the land of plenty of water, but that’s no reason to misuse our resources. With a little planning and forethought, vegetable gardeners can be wise in watering their gardens. Read more »
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