Recipes

Salad Dressing with Garlic Scapes

Since this was the first year that I harvested garlic scapes, I decided to search for some recipes.  I found one for salad dressing.   Now this recipe called for 4 tablespoons of red wine vinegar which I thought was a bit overpowering so I toned it down and added fresh parmesan cheese – all […]

Vegetables

Harvesting Garlic Scapes

As you may recall, I planted my garlic last October, now here is what the plants look like as of today. The hardnecks will produce a flower stem that will loop around once or twice before straightening out which is called a scape.   While it looks really cool, you should cut the flower stem […]

Companions

Companions – The Root Vegetables

There is no whiskey in my two half barrels!  This year I am growing various root vegetables in them.  They naturally make great companions.  Can’t go wrong with putting some root vegetables in one spot.  I have carrot, radishes, parsnips, rutabaga, turnips. To be quite honest, I am not sure that I am going to […]