Cindy’s Garden Meet Cindy Lepore Hart from Santa Cruz, California, USA ?? Cindy in her garden, among her organically grown vegetables and fruits. Cindy’s Gardening Interests “My Italian grandfather always had a garden in his backyard. I remember how delicious the produce tasted. Also, Trips to Italy where I ate delicious […]
Growing Garlic Garlic (Allium sativum) is a perennial plant of the amaryllis family. It includes onions, scallions, shallots, leeks, and chives. Growing garlic is easy to do. The trick is that it takes two growing seasons to produce large, beautiful garlic bulbs. I planted garlic cloves last fall. I planted them […]
I love growing and eating fresh corn. But now, the corn’s been harvested, the plants are turning brown and it’s time to remove the old stalks and plant some fall crops. First thing I do is cut down the stalks with my clippers, and stack them carefully into a […]
I grew 3 large sunflowers this summer. Once the seeds were mature, the flowers hung down. I cut them and left them to continue to dry. Here they are a week later, dried. My daughter and I brushed off the brown “stuff” that was covering the seeds. […]
I’ve been harvesting these beautiful, heirloom beans the past week or so. Ojo de Cabra means Goat’s Eye. They do kind of look like the eye of a goat. Here is the info on ojo de cabre beans. I got the seed packet at a garden fair. They are from […]
Yesterday I volunteered at Garden to Table in San Jose. This is an urban farm project that does awesome work in San Jose, check it out! Here’s a few photos from their small urban farm. Here’s Zach, Ashley and Aly from Garden to Table Elementary kids came, 2nd […]
