Kale was the first plant I started to grow in our Urban Potager 10 yrs ago. I am planting more kale this spring. I have been experimenting with growing food in the winter months within our zone 5 garden for a decade. It keeps evolving as to what I do as I learn and observe…
Tag: sustainable living
Dwarf Snow Peas perfect for small gardens!
I have grown snow peas off and on throughout the past decade in our Urban Potager, but in recent years, I have been battling the critters. I have started them in every possible place you can think of, and the small birds, bunnies, or chipmunks keep destroying or damaging my crops. The little pea plants…
Chervil
Each year I am amazed at how little I know about what people ate before we had grocery stores to purchase all our food. Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium) dates back to biblical times. Some people say that the fragrance resembles the myrrh that was given to the baby Jesus by the wise men. This was the…
Old-fashioned flowers in spring salads best way to say good-bye to winter….
We live in a changing world and wouldn’t it be nice to slow it down a bit? I was discussing with someone the other day my old “dumb” (flip) phone. I loved my flip phone because it could fit in my bike shorts pocket when I rode on the river. I never needed a special…
My Old Gal will live on and we can age together!
A few weeks ago I called a local arborist. It is not easy to find an arborist in the Quad Cities. Our Quad Cities is home to 5 cities “straddling the Mississippi River on the Iowa-Illinois boundary, in the United States. The cities are Davenport + Bettendorf(Iowa), and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline (in…
