How To Eat Cherimoya

The Romana variety of broccoli looks really nice, but we don't like the taste as much. Of the 100 broccoli plants we put in the soil, only a very few are struggling, and the rest are big sprawling monsters.

During the Civil War, persimmon seeds were dried, roasted, and ground into a coffee substitute, and the leaves were used for tea. Place them on paper towels to dry completely.Roasting persimmon seeds is similar to roasting pumpkin seeds.

Make a simple syrup of equal parts sugar and water, in which you steep mint leaves or a mint tea bag. They insisted on coming up willy-nilly and producing anyway this year. Use a melon baller to scoop out the melon into pretty, round pieces.

They are crisp, crunchy and very, very juicy. Gently rub the skin while under running water.Cut the pear in half. The core contains seeds, much like an apple. Start at the base and peel as you turn the pear.For some delicious homemade sweet treats, try...

Roses are edible flowers. Add a dusting of petals to top off vanilla pudding, brownies or ice cream. Sprinkle dry petals on frosted cakes or cupcakes. Add and shake petals with vinegar-oil dressings for aroma and flavor.Prepare rose butter by mixing a...

I plan to winter sow the seeds in a container that can just be set into the ground. It grows like most any other squash plant; likes warm weather and sunshine with plenty of water.

Cactus has long been an important vegetable in Mexican and southwestern cooking. The juice can also be used to flavor margaritas, lemonade, aguas frescas (fresh waters), and sorbets.

For example, they will eat: small worms, but not earthworms (too big and squiggly) grass on the back lawn eggs that break by accident the fly predator cocoons I put down in the horse stalls for biological fly control (Can't do that anymore!) undigested...

Add some more fruit, a few ice cubes and the insides of the maypop. However, if you pick the fruit from a tree, make sure your selection has slightly wrinkly skin and is light-green to yellow-orange in color for the best taste.

Eating close to home takes this seasonal eater through a journey of delights and dilemmas, one tiny deck garden, farmers' market discovery and easy-as-pie recipe at a time. The meat is lean, white and flavorful.

You'll know when pumpkins are ready to harvest – the vines will die and turn brown and the pumpkins will be bright orange with a hard rind. It's perfectly safe (and extremely healthy) to eat the seeds shell and all.

I know some farmers here in Italy who raise snails as a crop . I spotted the colorful grub shown above on my office windowsill the other day, and apart from marveling at the wonderful coloration of the creature, I was disappointed in myself that I didn't...

Both the leaves and the flowers have a peppery, spicy flavor and add a bite to green salads.They can also be used in cooked dishes, but should be added in the last few minutes to avoid overcooking.

A watermelon is a type of edible fruit and is one of the most common types of melons. When the melon is ripe, it is ready to be harvested, sold and consumed. The edible portion (minus the rind) of the fruit should appear pink and juicy.

Make your own insect spray to controls aphids, using common household items.Finely chop the garlic with a knife on a cutting board. The dreaded aphid is only one of several leaf-eating insects that can take over your pepper plants and destroy your vision...

Keep onions away from potatoes because these absorb the ethylene gas and moisture from onions and cause spoilage.Onions grow best in phosphorus-rich soil and beds raised 4 inches high and 20 inches wide.

Adopt a preventive strategy to keep the animals away from your precious roses.Mix 2 to 3 tbsp. Alternatively, strategically place a scarecrow or effigy of a predator in the flower bed.Puncture a hole through the top of an aluminum strip or pie plate and...

Stop at Farm Stands Crossing over a state line on the highway? They might be off the beaten path and cost a bit more than the Holiday Inn, but you'll be treated like family while you absorb the culture of the surrounding area.

The broad, succulent pads can be eaten raw or cooked in a variety of ways. Once cooked, they have a slightly slimy texture much like, but the flavor is appealing and adds a lemony note to recipes.You can often see nopales canned in specialty stores or...

Other insects that eat ferns include aphids, whiteflys, cutworms, beetles, crickets and grasshoppers. The short-tailed bat, Mystacina tuberculata, also eats fern spores. In the spring and early summer, the bullfinches switch to three different types of...

Each customer who signs up to take part in the Eat Local challenge will be entered to win a basket filled with local food items. Eat Local Challenges – Urban Farm Online farmers market, eat local, national cooperative grocer association, co-op The National...

To save face as a foodie, I popped a bright red-orange blossom into my mouth and smiled. The petals of antique or heirloom roses (don't use florist roses) in particular can flavor delicate jellies, vinegars or cakes.

Being an urban farmer is really great, but every once in a while, I have the urge to get out to the country where the serious farmers live. To satisfy my urge, I packed Nigel up this weekend and drove north to the town of Three Rivers, Calif., about five...

Two-thirds of a day's meals may be over and I've consumed little that counts other than a tangerine and some chopped celery in my tuna-salad sandwich. Which vegetables did your parents have to push you to eat when you were growing up?

A wide variety of different insects eat shrubs, and many of these insects are garden or agricultural pests. Shrubs serve as nutrition for many herbivores--which can sometimes be a problem for gardeners.Different types of shrubs come under attack from...

I've used wadded up newspaper and a sharp knife. Karen Lanier Now, I wish I could say I have a lot of experience making prickly pear jelly or roasting up nopales (the pads), but I don't.

In amongst our herb bed, but did you know that wild chives () are one of the most common and easy to identify wild growing plants? These perennial monocots reside in thegenus and are the smallest species of onion.