Have you ever wondered actually how much produce can be grown on a 100 square foot plot? WCG raised allotment gardens are roughly 4′ x 25′ – that’s a 100 square foot plot. This study was conducted on two such plots leased by yours truly, your WCG President, and my garden partners. THE CROPS In […]
Author Archive | Debbie Gordon
Garden Open House and Tours
This will be the debut of our QR-code enabled signs project. We’ll have a sort of scavenger hunt game where folks look for the veggie ID signs and then scan the QR code with their phone or iPad to get to expanded info about the veggie, how to grow it, how to cook it, etc. […]
Mulberries!
Our mulberry tree in the North 40 is loaded with berries right now. If you have a few minutes, take a small container to the garden and try some. Mulberries are the sweet, hanging fruit from a genus of deciduous trees that grow in a variety of temperate areas around the world. Thought to possibly […]
What’s cooking? Turnips!
Root crops are one of the fall garden’s bounties. On a recent trip to the garden, I harvested about 3 lbs of turnips and had to do some recipe research to decide how to fix them. I not only had a big bowl of the roots, there was a sink-full of the nutritious greens. As a transplanted southerner, […]