First stop on last weekends garden tour was to meet a friend at White Flower Farm in Litchfield County, CT. We had plans to tour as many garden as possible, on the Garden Conservancy open days tours. Before we visited the magnificent borders, we were immediately drawn to a collection of rustic looking pottery on […]
Archives for June 2013
The Salad Journal
The lettuce in my garden is in it’s glory. Between the cool spring temperatures and the rain, it has been slow to grow and slow to bolt. There is nothing I love more than clipping my own salad, yet when lettuce is this beautiful I have a hard time harvesting it. So before I get […]
Rhubarb Pie ( with ginger and lemon)
Refreshingly tart and slightly sweet, my recipe for rhubarb pie has a crumb topping and is comprised of three parts: dough, filling and topping. Start with the dough, since it needs to chill, and make it an hour before you plan to bake it. This recipe makes just one crust for the bottom layer, so double it […]
A Salad Lover’s Garden
You may be lucky to have grown up with gardening parents, yet most of the truly fine gardeners I know still consider themselves amateurs. A good gardener is someone who makes it look easy, but the truth is that growing a garden is actually a lot of hard work. If gardeners gave up growing the […]