Lettuce Varieties

Valentine Lettuce

This lettuce blend from Botanical Interests is called Valentine Lettuce and contains various varieties with red leaves.   This blend is great for edging your raised beds as it provides a nice contrast to all of the green vegetable plants. The varieties in this seed packet include the following: Marvel of Four Seasons (butterhead) Lolla […]

Recipes Vegetables

B.S. Salad

I don’t have a fancy name for this salad!  In the winter, I like to use the smaller Brussels Sprouts (B.S.) and onion from my garden on my salads.  It’s not total B.S. because I really do use them.  I know the trend is to cook them, but I like them raw too!  Here is […]

General Gardening Other Gardens

Vegetable and Fruit Gardens at Phipps

I recently went to Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh and checked out their gardens of veggies and fruit.  First of all, take a look at the large grape arbor above.  It’s very impressive!  I’m hoping it inspires us to start growing grapes next Spring.  Since grapes are perennials, I need to figure out where their forever […]