COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Herbal Succulents - Aloe Vera Blossom Sauté
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February 2023
Come into the Kitchen, Gardener

By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. Vista, California. Sunset through Aloe vera blossoms. Flowers destined for tacos! A...


- Mar 1, 2022
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Leafy Greens Juice
Leafy Greens Juice By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! March 2022. Since I have a burgeoning raised bed of mixed greens growing...


- Feb 1, 2022
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Porch Bed, Potatoes & Arugula
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! February 2022. Those of you who attended the "*Coffeeless Coffee in the Garden" back in November...


- Jan 1, 2022
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Karen's Never-ending Persimmon Crop Leads To Muffins
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. Karen's previous persimmon recipes can be read here; Persimmon cocktail called...


- Dec 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Edgehill Herb Farm Persimmons
By Kaye Wren, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2021. Did you attend the recent coffee-less Coffee In The Garden at SDHS president, Karen...


- Oct 31, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Dates and Potatoes
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. As you read through this month's newsletter articles from Jim Bishop and Sommer...


- Aug 31, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Keep Calm And Carrot On!
By Karen England for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. With thanks to https://www.gloryofthesnow.com/carrot-puns/ for the punny title of...

- Apr 30, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Eat From Your Summer Vegetable Garden
By Karen England. As Sommer Cartier recommends in her bi-monthly column, Grow with Abundance, in this, the May 2021, issue of Let's Talk...


- Apr 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Asparagus and Strawberries, Just Not Together . . .
By Karen England. Did you read my April President's Letter in this issue of Let's Talk Plants!? If so, then you learned about a "new...


- Mar 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: If You Didn't Toss It, And You Planted It, Then Cook And Eat It!
This month, while editing Sommer Cartier's column, GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Don't Toss It, Plant It! about growing sweet potatoes and green onions


- Feb 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Tomatoes, the Umami Superfood
a category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter), corresponding to the flavor of glutamates, especially monosodium glutam


- Jan 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Duck Eggs
Early in the pandemic, mainly to control garden snails, I got two ducks to join my two old hens already in the chicken coop. You can read ab
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