Category: Growing How-To

By Charity Shumway |

Tomatillo Varieties: Pucker up for Purple

(image) We were talking about tomatillos the other day, and then we got all distracted by plums and flowers. The world this time of year will do that to you. Summer! Bounty! It’s hard to stay focused, and why would you even want to? But we’re coming back to tomatillos because they’re delicious. And they’ve [Read more]

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By Charity Shumway |

Let’s Talk Tomatillos

(image) Plenty of fruits and vegetables have wonderfully evocative names. Gooseberries (I pucker just saying it); bok choy (don’t you just want to slice it in the air like a Fruit Ninja?); aubergines (so sophisticated). But of all the fruit and vegetable names, none strike me as more fun than: tomatillo. Just say it!  TOMATILLO. [Read more]

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By Charity Shumway |

The Beauty of a Blueberry Bush

image In one of my night classes at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the summer sun setting, the hot day finally cooling into purple evening, we stopped to look at a beautiful sourwood tree, its innumerable strands of white flowers outlined in wispy arcs against the sky. That’s when our instructor, one of the garden’s arborists, said [Read more]

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By Charity Shumway |

How to Grow Cucumbers (in your Apartment)

Nadia wasn’t lying — you really can grow cucumbers on your terrace, balcony, or window box. If you’re really bold, you can even try to grow them fully indoors (more on that shortly). But first you need to know that cucumber plants grow fast, and they grow big. They’re in the cucurbitacea family, the same [Read more]

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