Get multiple harvests when you grow baby salad greens as cut-and-come-again. All you need is a shallow container, compost, and seeds No matter your growing space, anyone can grow baby salad leaves at home. Using this method, you can get up to four harvests of greens, all for the cost of just one bag of salad from the supermarket. Often called mesclun in the USA, baby salad leaves are immature leaves of lettuces and other greens that would grow into full-size versions if you planted them ... Read More about Grow Baby Salad Greens and Lettuce as Cut-and-Come-Again
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Grow a Rapid Response Victory Garden
You've just decided that it's time to grow a vegetable garden, and not just any garden, a rapid response victory garden. Here's how to begin and a guide to crops that will mature in 30, 60, and 90 days. Full video at the bottom. It was just after five am and I was lying in bed, scrolling the news, Facebook, Twitter, everything. I’m not usually awake this early, but we live in different times. Seemingly overnight, our way of life has changed, and a lot of us are feeling anxious for ourselves, ... Read More about Grow a Rapid Response Victory Garden
How to Propagate Rosemary from Stem Cuttings
Step-by-step instructions for how to propagate rosemary from stem cuttings. Includes when and how to take cuttings, encouraging root growth, and aftercare. Use these tips to create dozens of new rosemary plants for free. If you have an established rosemary plant, you can use it to propagate dozens of new plants for practically nothing. Propagating is taking a piece of a parent plant, and encouraging it to grow its own roots and become a separate plant. The new plant will essentially be a clone ... Read More about How to Propagate Rosemary from Stem Cuttings
Rhubarb Wine Recipe and full Winemaking Instructions
Use fresh spring rhubarb and a few other ingredients to make this rhubarb wine recipe. Includes tips on equipment and the full winemaking process. Quite a few people think of rhubarb as strictly a springtime treat but if you grow it yourself you'll know that you can be pulling stalks of it far into the summer. Even so, it's a matter of time before you're tired of eating rhubarb crumbles. When this happens, you know it's time. Time to make sweet rhubarb wine. I only made a single batch of ... Read More about Rhubarb Wine Recipe and full Winemaking Instructions
Relics of Ancient Gardening and Roman Cooking at the British Museum
A visit to the British Museum to learn about gardening and cooking artifacts from the first to fourth-century Roman-Britain Aside from gardening and making, one of my favorite topics is ancient history. Not the glimmering gold of ancient Egypt, or the art of the classical world, but the lives of ordinary people, our ancestors. Being of European descent, I’m especially interested in what happened here all those thousands of years ago, and how the West came to be what it is. Here on the Isle ... Read More about Relics of Ancient Gardening and Roman Cooking at the British Museum
