Garden Fuss

Beet #kvass and fermented #salsa on deck tonight. The garden does us good! A photo posted by @mizqtinaj on Aug 8, 2014 at 9:01pm PDT One of the simplest, easy peasy, no-brainer, ways of adding beneficial cultures, vitamins, and nutrients into your diet is to ferment your foods. One of my favorite ways to add these cultures is through beverages like Beet Kvaas which I wanted to share with you today. The recipe couldn't be simpler but the benefits to my gut health, my skin, hair, and nails is why I'm excited to share this today. Beets are not on the favorite foods list of most people I know, but I'm glad to now admit that today they are one of mine. To describe to you how difficult it is to get a full grown adult to sip or sample a food with beets is worse than taking a five year old for shots. These folks feel like their life will end if they imbibe on this sometimes crimson root vegetable. But I never give up and the smell and my incessant teasing usuall...

Last fall I pickled beets and somehow lost track of the only 2 jars I made. Well as I went through the pantry to find new jars for the strawberry preserves I made last week low and behold I found them. Now that it's spring I had a dilemma because I couldn't think of the best way to approach them. I had only tried them in a corn salad or fresh.... What to do? *sigh* Well, if I may digress a little bit; I must attempt to make you fully understand the loathing I had for beets my whole life. [minus the last 3 years I've grown them fresh]
 My mother would open a can and heat the already cooked to death red icky root thingies. The smell alone had me praying there would be enough bread and water to be full for the rest of the night. There was no way they were goin down my throat let alone in my mouth period! Let me tell you, I became the master of the silent treatment and skipping meals. The only thing worse than the store bought aluminum canned beets was liver and ...

We have comprised the list of seeds we will be starting for the 2010 grow season. Yes there are technically some fruits listed in the vegetable section, but we wanted to make the list a little more easy to decipher and less intimidating for beginning gardeners. SEED LIST 2010 Vegetables Climbing Spinach Egg Plant - Black Beauty Cabbage - Ferry's Round Dutch Purple Cauliflower Brussels Sprouts - Long Island Pumpkin - Jarradale Squash - Spaghetti, Saffron, Dark Green Zuchinni, Burpees Hybrid Zuchinni Peas - Dwarf Grey Sugar, Super Snappy, Super Snap, Sugar Daddy, Pink Eye Purple Hull Beans - Royal Burgundy, Tenderpick, Disoy Beets - Ruby Queen, Detroit Dark Red, Chioggia, Burpee's Golden Carrots - Kaleidoscope Mix (salmon-orange, yellow & white) Lettuce - Grand Rapids Leaf,  Mesclun Mix Leeks Okra Celery - Giant Pascal Peppers - Jalapeno, Cubanelle, Grand Bell Mix Tomato's - Beef Steak, Speckled Roma, Large Red Cherry, Old German, Black Krim, Choc.C...