Recipes

Bundle of Baby Lettuce Salad

I attended a beautiful wedding on Saturday at the Biltmore.  The salad presentation was so unique that I have to share it with you.   It consisted of baby lettuce bundled in the middle by a very thin slice of cucumber topped with champagne vinaigrette, gorganzola, pecans and pears. It looked elegant and was tasty. […]

Blooms Sow And Grow Blooms

Sow and Grow Pansies

Growing pansies and their cute cousins, violas are easy under the right conditions. Pansies and violas prefer cooler weather and definitely do not like the afternoon sun. Pansies and violas also like water and some organic plant food. I like to plant them in the spring in the hanging baskets in the front of our […]

Fruits Sow and Grow

Plant and Grow Strawberries

We have another bumper crop of strawberries this year! Last year I moved the strawberries to their forever home which is in the same bed that I am growing peas. Please see my prior post to see why these two plants make great companions. Two years ago, I planted strawberry bare roots (see the picture […]