Jan
20
Everyone seems to associated carrots with the color orange. The orange carrot is the most common colored carrot. However it’s not the only colored carrot. You can find carrots that are white, yellow, red, gold, and purple. Sometimes you find them in specality grocery stores or the farmer’s market, but they aren’t always easy to …
Jan
11
I love looking at the new seed catalogs and see what kinds of neat things they have come up with now. Yesterday, I spoke about the white strawberries you could buy from Burpee. Today’s unique discovery is Flowering Brussels Sprouts. They are a combination of kale and Brussels sprouts. They grow on a stalk just …
Jan
10
It is that time of year again, when all the seed catalogs are being send out to get us gardeners excited about another planting season. I like to take some time in the winter to cover some of the new or unique items that I have stumped across. I am going to start with some …
Mar
21
For all my readers in the Ann Arbor and surrounding areas, I wanted to share with you a great place to get seed potatoes. I am going to grow potatoes for the first time this year. I purchased three varieties this past week at the Downtown Home and Garden store located at 210 S. Ashley …
Jan
10
Beans are one of the simplest things to grow. I recommend them as the first vegetable for a first time gardener. But once you have mastered the bush bean, it’s time to move on to pole beans. They aren’t hard to grow at all, but they are a step up from bush beans, as you …
Jan
07
While doing some research this morning, I came across Planet Natural’s website. They are a company that sells natural and organic products for your home, lawn, and garden. They sell only heirloom seeds. What is the big deal about heirloom seeds? They have been used for years because of their quality. They might have great …
Jan
07
I received a catalog from John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds this evening. I wanted to share something I discovered – yellow edible pod peas. These are snow peas. They are the flat peas that you can eat pod and all. Yellow split peas are readily available, but I have never seen a fresh yellow pea. …
Jan
05
If you are looking to just buy purple (or blue) potatoes, check out my page on where to buy them. This post is only about where to buy seed potatoes for your own garden. Here in America, we see the white flesh potato as the norm. The all-American Russet is white fleshed. The popular red …
Jan
04
There is nothing I like better fresh out of the garden than beans. The tenderness and flavor cannot match what you get in the grocery store. In my search for the perfect beans there is one thing I always rule out, growing meaty beans. That is beans that tend to grow large seeds rather quickly. …
Jan
03
Where to Buy Recently I received a couple seed catalogs in the mail. One of the first things I looked up was their prices on fingerling seed potatoes. Fingerling potatoes are a gourmet treat, that sell in the store for a gourmet price. They are great for boiling in a pot of water and rock …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (3 1/2) and Autumn (1). I started this blog in October 2009 to share my culinary experiences from making my own food from scratch to what I find at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
