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The European explorers who first discovered it in Central America thought the berries tasted like a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, and thus called it allspice. As a medicine, thyme has a long history of use as a medicinal ingredient for treating...

Dried herbs ¼ teaspoon paprika 4 tablespoons butter, cold but softened ½ cup Grated hard cheese (Parmesan, cheddar, Asiago) 2/3 cup tomato or V-8 juice PREPARATION Mix together the dry ingredients.

Learn how to harvest dill and how to store dill weed to keep the delicate flavor around all year.Dill weed is preserved by drying the leaves, seeds or entire stem of the herb. Cut just the leafy foliage or remove entire stems to dry for canning and seeds.

This means that apple wood is a very efficient source of wood heat.Apple wood is quite fragrant when it burns, with a sweet smoky scent, which is pleasant in a fireplace. Apple trees when harvested are valued by woodworkers for their wood quality.

Though ducks will eat the occasional tomato or baby green, once the plants have established themselves the birds will happily eat many of the plants' pests. I have seen them sold from $4 per dozen to $1 per egg.

Increasing the amount of CO2 in the growing environment produces larger plants. Carbon dioxide gas -- CO2 -- can be used for enriching the growing conditions for plants. The level should come to an inch below the tubing when you place the cap with the...

I ended up hanging the broomcorn on a shepherd's hook next to our regular bird feeder and the birds have really enjoyed it. Although they always love the black oil sunflower seeds and suet we put out for them, this year they seem to be particularly fond...

Like so many repair jobs around the house, it seemed to be over before we had hardly started, leaving us to wonder why we had put it off for so long. My late father-in-law collected nutcrackers in his later years.

Read on to learn how the elegant spires of this plant inspired the lifework of a little-known British gardener from York, George Russell (1857-1951). , or lupins, are a large family of plants, encompassing over 200 species of wildflowers native to North...

One way around this is to look at winter squash and other unusual varieties whose young immature fruit are a suitable culinary alternative to your classic zucchini and yellow crooknecks.

This vining heirloom produces an abundance of small, green, watermelon-shaped cucumbers with light-colored flesh, and they tend to grow well on fences, trellises , and even in hanging baskets.

During the first nine years of this decade, with potatoes accounting for 30 percent of the total. There are literally hundreds of different varieties of fruits and vegetables grown in the islands.

At the end of the growing season, should your celtuce go to flower, let it do so. To harvest celtuce stems, snap or cut them off at ground level, leaving the uppermost leaves intact but tugging off the lowest leaves.

They grew just fine without it! From one packet of seeds, I've harvested about 10 handfuls of 18-inch-long beans, and there are still more on the vines that I'll need to harvest before fall's first frost.

I'll need to grow them vertically in order to have enough room for everything I want to grow. I'm going to get a few different single-serving sized varieties from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.

Self-rising flour is all-purpose wheat flour with 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1½ teaspoons of baking powder added per cup of flour. Starch absorbs water during baking and is responsible for the firmness of bread products.

While there's still a lot to learn about the state of food hubs in the U.S. and a lot of challenges to overcome (No. 1 being how to manage growth), it's becoming increasingly clear that food hubs offer a viable way for farmers to cooperatively and efficiently...

Many times, after the damage is done, there is no fixing it, and you're left kicking yourself for not supporting the plants earlier. As the plant grows, its stems grow up through the grid, providing support throughout the plant.

Susy Morris/Flickr When I walked into the Intro to Sourdough bread-making class by The Artisan Bread School's Tom Edwards in Louisville, Ky., each student's station was set up with two bowls, a bench scraper, a towel, an apron, a kitchen scale, a banneton,...

I had dirt and mouse droppings everywhere. Letting a project go isn't a failure—it's a path to a more efficient and functional urban homestead. It all depends on what works best for your home and garden.

CookieFest is nearly a holiday of its own in my family. During my childhood, I fondly remember baking in my dear grandmother's kitchen. Over the years we've learned which arrangements work and which don't, so now we're a well-oiled cookie-making machine.We've...

Seeds of these and other unique peppers for patio pots are available from Territorial Seed, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and Totally Tomatoes. With thick walls and a sweet flavor, Mohawk Patio has a long season of harvest, too.

This 6-inch-long, Japanese-type eggplant is highly productive, often producing right until frost. White Star A hybrid variety with great disease resistance and good production, White Star is fairly sweet-flavored and makes an excellent harvest when picked...

Chances are your choice of apple varieties will be greater there as well as at a local. Those in the Northeast insist that delicate-skinned 'Northern Spy' is THE choice ("Spies are for Pies") while some in North Carolina bow to newer 'King Lucsious'.

« More Dirt on Gardening » Tags garden tools , gardeners , Jessica Walliser , kitchen tools , knives Holy cow! Now, let me explain something: I have about five other cheese knives (no kidding), but none of them works like this one! Apparently, the folks...

Known botanically as Brassica oleracea var. Gai lan is featured in many Chinese dishes, as well as cuisine from other Asian regions. Bugs Be Gone To prevent infestations of imported cabbage worms, cover your gai lan with a layer of floating row cover...

Using Sesame Seeds Store completely dried sesame seeds in sealed glass jars in a dark cupboard. They're also pressed to make sesame oil or processed into tahini paste. You can also freeze sesame seeds for longer storage.