Cabbage | My Raised Bed Vegetable Garden

Recipe - Israeli Pickled Cabbage

2 heads red or green cabbage, cut into large chunks (red is very pretty.)
3 or 4 large heads of garlic, outer paper removed, cut in half along equator to expose garlic
2 large (2″) pieces of celery heart, with leaves
2 jalopeno peppers, cut into large slices
medium bunch of fresh dill, roughly chopped
1/2 tsp. red pepper flakes [...]

Recipe - Oriental Chicken Salad

Karen Lynch gets the credit for this great salad. Her recipe has travelled around the USA because it’s so delicious. I first had it when my friend Jeani Zam made it for us; yesterday my friend Betty made it for a pot luck meal. With or without chicken, it always is a hit at parties [...]

Northern Gardeners: Start Your Planting!

It’s Monday. A new week begins. For those of you in the Midwest, Eastern US and other Zones 6 – 8 areas, now’s the time to get over to the local nurseries to see what plants they have. Don’t just look for flowers for the yard. Delve into the vegetable section and see what healthy [...]

The End of the Broccoli

Do you see those yellow flowers at the top right of this picture? Those are broccoli flowers! I think I could have harvested broccoli forever, but frankly, I got sick of it so I let the plants bolt (by not picking the florets any more.) See how tall the broccoli plants [...]

The Continuing Harvest

These broccoli plants are still producing florets. I have to admit that I’m getting a little sick of broccoli. These plants are prolific, too. I picked them clean a few days ago, and there are probably a quart’s worth of florets on these three plants alone. My cabbage patch broccoli is also still [...]

Lettuce!

Speaks for itself, doesn’t it? It’s so pretty I sort of hate to pick it. But I will. The darker lettuce in the front is Buttercrunch, a nice textured butter lettuce. The lighter green ruffly lettuce at the top is one I picked up at the local home repair center. The [...]

The Harvest Has Begun

It is amazing what a couple of days’ worth of rain can bring to a growing vegetable garden. I stepped outside this morning to find that the one of the second plantings of broccoli is just about to burst into blooms! I think the plant knows that even though it sat almost dormant as a [...]

First Tomato Harvest!

Ok, I know it’s not impressive to you, but this meager harvest represents the first fruits of my garden this year. That’s impressive to me as I see all the blossoms on the plants and know that I’m going to have a LOT of tomatoes this year. These survived the cold, which cannot be said [...]

First Onion Harvest!

My garden survived the cold, I think. The cucumbers are questionable. If they don’t perk up in the nest couple of days, I’ll pull them and stick a couple more tomato plants in their place and try cucumbers in the summer. But the onions I first planted are maturing, and I found four onions on [...]

Brrrrrrr!

Brrrrrrr! It’s downright chisley out there. I know I have no right to complain; the rest of the nation is dealing with sub zero temperatures and tons of snow. But it’s nearly 10:00 am and it’s only 48° outside. I know, I’m spoiled. We seldom get below 50 here, so when we do, [...]