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First Autumn Weekend at Cowlick Cottage Farm
Autumn in the garden has its own appeal. It doesn’t have the almost crazed feeling of anticipation that springtime does, even though it is a most bountiful time to dig and plant and harvest. The autumn garden is slower to plant and slower to grow, but it has its own beauty and appeal. The weather is…
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Bringing Butterflies to your Garden
An organic garden may host so much more life than vegetables or ornamental flowers and shrubs. Growing and nurturing new species of plants can attract a multitude of wildlife…birds, four-legged creatures, amphibians, and insects, including butterflies, all of which can be beneficial to the garden and delights to the gardener. When I planned our garden this spring, I made sure…
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A Visit to Cape Ann
I haven’t written a new post in about three weeks, and I’m like a rusty hinge on a garden gate, willing to open up, but not sure I am able. The last few weeks have been filled with drama, followed by a mid-summer lethargy that is common in the deep South, when the temperature stays in…
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Roasted Garlic Butter
If I were to choose an absolute favorite crop that we grow, I would have to say it’s our gourmet garlic. We take it seriously. Garlic plays a supporting role in almost everything that we cook…veggies, steaks, stirfries, mashed potatoes. It’s the first thing I reach for when I want to make something that everyone…
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Preserving the Harvest…Pickled Tomatoes
At this time of year, the vegetable garden is bursting with fresh vegetables and herbs that need to be harvested. I can look out my window right now and see big, juicy heirloom tomatoes ripening on the vine–and I just picked pounds of them early this morning. My countertops are laden with baskets of squash, tomatoes,…
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A Walk on the Wild Side
While we mostly grow organic vegetables at Cowlick Cottage Farm, we try not to be one-dimensional. Knockout roses, daylillies, hydrangeas, jasmine, clematis and ginger all have a home here, too. They don’t get nearly as much attention as the tomatoes, okra and squash do, though. So when I plant flowers, they need to be able…
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Harvesting Potatoes
The potatoes that we planted in the fall were ready for harvesting this weekend. Fresh potatoes have a wonderful, snappy texture and flavor that I have never found in storebought potatoes. They are such an easy and rewarding crop to grow. Here in the south, we plant our seed potatoes in November in raised beds that are…
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Garden Goddess Green Beans
There is nothing (well, almost nothing!) I enjoy more than spending an afternoon in the kitchen cooking up a storm with the veggies and herbs that I harvest from my garden. The fresh, crispy veggies always inspire me to get just a little more creative with my cooking. Take the lowly green bean, for example. It…