Archive for February, 2012

By Charity Shumway |

This Week in the Garden: Bulbs and Buds!

Remember those bulbs I planted in January? Remember how I worried I’d waited too long and they wouldn’t get enough of a cold season to burst forth appropriately come spring? Well, the world is full of surprises. First, it’s February but feels like spring in New York. Surprise! Second, the bulbs are coming up. SURPRISE! [Read more]

By Nadia Arumugam |

Cooking from Storage: Pears

There’s little sprouting in your window boxes or outdoor planters, and the farmer’s markets are scant with fresh bounty. This doesn’t mean however that the colder months have nothing to offer from the garden. They might have been picked or dug up  a while ago, but there’s a plethora of produce and fruit in storage [Read more]

By Charity Shumway |

Your Calendar For Growing EVERYTHING

Spring is coming, and it has prompted some soul-searching on my part. Some of you may recall that last year I planted peas in July. Which is an OUTRAGE, since they actually want to be planted in March (suffice it to say, they didn’t do well). How did I let that happen? The trouble is, [Read more]

By Nadia Arumugam |

Loony for Luscious Meyer Lemons

As Charity eluded to in her last post, Meyer lemons occupy a league of their own in the citrus realm. They really are quite the most mystical of fruit. They appear lemon-shaped, but with their egg-yolk yellowy-amber hue (I refer to organic eggs!) and more rotund waistlines, they resemble their cousins, the orange. Similarly, their [Read more]