What Is Radicchio

I then pile 3 or 4 inches of straw around the root stump to protect it throughout the winter. To keep peace in the vegetable patch (and the house!), I grow a few radicchio plants every year for him to enjoy in salads of mixed greens.

As a poet, she left behind much wisdom we can apply to our day-to-day lives, but today, as I was reading about her life and thumbing through her insightful words, this quote stuck out at me: “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking...

Their enthusiasm is definitely contagious, and just being in the presence of these wonderful people inspires me to pull myself up by my bootstraps and keep chugging along, not to mention all the people they've inspired to do the same.

This type of bed offers many advantages to the small-scale gardener, even when diminished to a more reasonable backyard size of 2 or 3 feet. HUegel How-Tos Holzer suggests that you begin building your huegel by digging out a shallow trench, removing any...

Let's just be honest: It was cold this week. Every time I climbed into my car in some new creative way, dropped my keys because my hands were shaking from the cold, or added another layer of clothing to my daily outfit, I thought of Hal Borland's quote...

So lower potencies like 6x to 30x or 6c to 30c are usually recommended, especially for do-it-yourselfers. Now that you know what homeopathy is all about, come back next week so I can show you how we use homeopathic remedies on our farm.

Children are particularly susceptible to adverse effects. Humans with severe, prolonged reactions to winterberry ingestion should be evaluated by medical professionals. Cats, dogs and horses are all sensitive to winterberry toxicity.

I'm constantly mulling over possibilities in my mind, from the contemplative (“What if I was from a different country?”) to the ridiculous (“How awesome would it be if I had three arms?”).

Ashitaba was growing at one of the facilities, and he was quickly hooked. Ashitaba is an angelica species, which are members of the carrot family and tend to be biannuals. I nodded my head as he spoke because I have routinely thumbed through his catalog...

But then I realized that these little nymphs were immature leaf-footed bugs , which aren't beneficial at all and are actually quite nefarious. Second, the collective social behavior of the nymphs was very telling—assassin bugs tend to be solitary hunters...

Digging in your garden too soon or in the wrong conditions results in two things: frustration for you and poor soil structure. Frozen soil is dense and rigid. Test your soil first by walking on it or patting it in several locations.

Once transplanted, only those seedlings known to be especially sensitive to damping off need be misted with fungicide daily until the first or second seed leaves have emerged.Another option may include seed treatment.

Longbeachae.Paronychia is a local infection that occurs in the tissue around the fingernails and toenails. In many areas, restaurants are selling their food waste to commercial compost operators as well.Let's take a moment and think about what occurs...

They can lay fertile eggs, and set a clutch of eggs to hatch. For more information on cooking heritage turkeys:http://www.localharvest.org/features/cooking-turkeys.jsp.I read somewhere (sorry, but didn't note where) that the average person in the U.S

I cook most of these foods during the winter, except for the pickled sweet peppers which I make in the fall. Be as it may, important is that nothing bad happened. Our kids were happy to have lots of chocolates and candies to eat, but we weren't as happy...

Better known as Dracaena sanderiana, this plant is a fixture in many households.Connoisseurs agree that not all bamboo is created equally.Lucky bamboo, also known as "Belgian evergreen," is a woody shrub with shiny green leaves.

Since the food web partially depends on the plants that grow in it, the more different species you plant, the richer and healthier the soil.Your plants belong to you, but in a larger sense, they serve your community, since diversity is the sum of all...

The farmer left the third field unplanted, or fallow, so that nutrients could increase in the soil. The same philosophy used by farmers applies to home gardens as well.Allowing land to stand fallow has been practiced by farmers for centuries.

It is considered very soft, rendering it unsuitable for use in situations requiring durability, such as flooring. Solid lumber is used in furniture and joinery where it grows locally.

“Psst! Hey buddy, want a rooster?” Then I'll proceed to pull him out from under my jacket and try to hand him off. I don't mind him going into someone's soup pot, but I'd much prefer he find a nice home somewhere where he can ‘cockadoodledoo' to...

I think the same is true of agriculture and farming: Is there any feeling quite like the electric thrill of buying seeds of new vegetables you've never tried and imagining the delicious results, or the swell of joy that stems from watching the birth of...

They are not friendly to the touch, however, as they have sharp thorns. These sprawling plants are vines that can grow up to 30 feet long or tall if they have something to climb on.

Hydrogen chloride (HCl) becomes hydrochloric acid when dissolved in water to form H+ and Cl- ions. This method works well but takes time to have its affect. A hydronium ion is a hydrogen nucleus without its usual single orbiting electron.

These soil critters work double-duty: As the soil organisms break down the mulch, it will enrich the soil. Mulch Insulates and Protects: It insulates soil to protect soil organisms and plant roots from extreme weather, as well as insulate them from sudden...

I was curious to see how the insulation could be contained, knowing that spray foam expanded once sprayed. Arrrggghhh! I've been waiting for a chance to use some pirate-ease on this blog.

Order Breeds With Big Differences With dozens of chicken breeds to choose from, in many different colors to boot, ordering a diverse flock is easy to do. And, they can also be very wrong.

The length and diameter of the joints and stalk vary by sugar cane species. Harvesters (humans or machinery) chop down the stems and leave the roots to regrow for next season, collect the stems and load them onto a truck or rail wagon for transport to...