Guess what? Peppers are the perfect plant to pop into a window box. For oh so many reasons. Let me count the ways: First, they don’t get all that big. So unlike, say, tomato plants which start off small but then get so big they try to eat your family, peppers won’t overwhelm a small [Read more]
Archive for September, 2012
Summer Squash Varieties: Nigel Slater’s Top Picks
The universe of “summer squash” is vast. You can get lost in it. Zucchinis, crooknecks, pattypans…those funny globe ones, whatever they’re even called. And those are just high level categories. Orbiting each of those categories are seemingly endless solar systems of cultivars… “Sunbursts” and “Blackees” and on and on. How is a person supposed to [Read more]
The Ultimate Cure for a Veggie-Hater: Chocolate, Summer Squash, Pistachio and Orange Cake
I was skeptical at first. Actually, my sister was the really skeptical one. We were texting and I told her I planned to make a zucchini cake. I could virtually hear the gagging emanate from my Blackberry screen. Still, I shared some of her concerns. There’s nothing about zucchini, not its appearance, nor its distinctly [Read more]
How to Grow Zucchini: A Squash Vocabulary Lesson
(image) Let’s start with the first squash word you need to know: bounteous. If you plant zucchini (or any of zucchini’s summer squash brethren), you will be blessed with a bounteous harvest. So bounteous, in fact, that you may be driven to desperate measures to make use of this bounteousness. In Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon, [Read more]