Outdoor Grow Room

Fall Update of the Herb Garden

The fall herb garden is still going strong.  Here’s what is still growing . . . I have a few flowers and three types of vegetables growing in the herb garden. There are yellow calendula flowers at either end.  The snapdragons that are up front go through cycles of pink and yellow blooms.  Right now, […]

Outdoor Grow Room

Fall Update of the Vegetable Garden

Wanted to share an aerial view of my fall vegetable garden before I start pulling some of the plants.  The flowers and the tomato, tomatillo and pepper plants are still looking good and producing since we’ve had a warm spell.  The bean plants and okra are starting to slow up.  I am currently growing arugula, […]

Kitchen Tools and Gadgets

Herb Stripper

An herb stripper sounds naughty, but it’s not. . . it is actually helpful with using and preserving herbs.  While the herb scissors make it easy to cut certain herbs, this tool makes it is to remove the leaves from their stem.  I find it most helpful to remove leaves from woody stemmed herbs like […]