6. Ginger | Who doesn’t love ginger tea? I love mine with lemon and honey. Did you know they taste best when they’re brewed fromfree and organic produce ginger? Select a few nice parts with good growing buds from your store-bought ginger. Plant them directly in a rich moist soil. ...
Place the pot of ginger pieces in filtered light, but not in direct sunlight. This makes ginger a goodindoor plant. Growing ginger indoors in a pot is also a good choice for gardening with children since the kids will be able to watch it sprout and grow nearby. Ginger can also be plant...
(Butterfly Gingers). These alternatives are nothing like the true edible ginger. Given the ease of growing edible ginger, I highly recommend getting and growing the real thing. Most people new to gingers in general are not sure how to go about starting their own gingers from store bought ...
The third picture is of the store-bought seeds. These seeds are treated with chemical pesticides and are artificially colored to show the presence of pesticides. Take care while handling store-bought, chemically treated seeds and wash your hands thoroughly afterwards. Step 2: Pit Preparation, Germi...
First of all, here's a video in which I explain how to grow ginger and other grocery store ingredients such as pineapples, sugar cane and coconuts. I shot it for Troy-Bilt as a #Saturday6 member, but it's perfect for this post too!
So we have not bought the usual crazy amount of mini chocolate bars this year. Instead of candy, I nominate the color orange to be our celebration vehicle for Halloween in our house. Pumpkins are a bit cliche… so I chose to make a delicious dinner-time dish from the gorgeous, sweet,...
(Not all carrots are the grocery store shape.) Don’t expect to get perfectly straight “grocery store” carrots in the garden, especially if your soil isn’t loose, well-drained, and sandy or loamy. Your carrots will still taste better, whatever their shape!
Quail egg, potage, ginger for the first course. Photo by Christine Willmsen I’ve been to several high-end restaurants with interesting combinations of flavors, but rarely have I had an experience like Benu, where I couldn’t find words to describe the food. After several courses I realized...
Following on fromCharity’s poston small-space-friendly pumpkins, I had planned to whip up something exciting and adventurous with a perfectly formed and almost-too-cute to eat pie pumpkin I was lucky enough to land. (Full disclosure, I bought it at Dean & DeLuca as I am sadly lacking ...
Buy good quality seeds from a local garden store or buy them online. Also, buy seed starting mix ormake yourself. Fill small pots or seedling trays with the seed mix and plant two seeds 2-3 cm deep in each pot. Start seeds 6-10 weeks before last spring frost date. Usually, in a ...