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Tag Archives: vegetables
The Farmers Market May Be Closed, but the Growing Season Continues
Although the fall farmers market in downtown Mobile has come to its close, there are still local farmers with plenty of crops in the field. If you’re willing to drive and you have the time, you can go directly to the farm and find u-pick or prepicked produce. Here are two that are worth checking [...]
Make Your Own Pickles
The advent of summer vegetables brings an abundance of cheap cucumbers at the farmers market – 3 for $1 – and $2 will buy you enough to make about two quarts of pickles. Experienced canners may find the the humble pickled cucumber old hat, but I always have an appetite for the cold, crisp refrigerated [...]
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Charlie’s U-Pik
Charlie’s U-Pik Dickerson Sawmill Road Lucedale, MS 39452 (601) 947-9661 info@charliesupik.com OPENING DAY: Saturday, May 29 PRODUCTS Open for pick-your-own for about six weeks during the summer. Bell Pepper, Corn (yellow, white & Bi-Color), Okra, Onions, Pickling Cucumbers, Pink-eye Purple Hull Peas, Slicing Cucumbers, Squash (limited availability), Sunflowers, Speciality Peppers, Zucchini, Eggplant, Snap Beans, Roma [...]
Packaged Salad Can Contain High Levels of Bacteria
Civil Eats reports that in the March 2010 issue of Consumer Reports, “tests of packaged leafy greens found bacteria that are common indicators of poor sanitation and fecal contamination, in some cases, at rather high levels.” Organic greens fared no better than conventionally grown. Recommendations are (if you are going to buy packaged salad) that [...]
Winter’s Damage
In last week’s Press-Register column, Bill Finch continued his series on predicting the effects of cold weather in the garden. I’m happy to say that he writes If I’ve learned anything from this winter, it’s that I’ve been too conservative in promoting winter vegetable gardening, and perhaps not loud enough in encouraging the use of [...]
The Frustrations of Vegetable Gardening
I was out working in the garden today, wondering skeptically whether the little plants will amount to anything worth eating by October. Things never seem to grow like I expect them to in this climate. Some crops do reasonably well, but we’ve never had a bumper harvest of anything. Lettuce, arugula, snow peas, and potatoes [...]
In My Kitchen Garden: Pole Beans
We checked the pole beans yesterday and found these ready to harvest. They’ve done well this year; I wish I had planted more. The cherry tomatoes have tons of small fruits, the blueberries are slowly ripening. Our lemon tree has lost all but one of its fruits, so I hope it blooms again.
Winter Greens
Here’s a colander full of winter greens from our garden. There’s a small green cabbage, arugula, leaf lettuce, and a beet.
In My Kitchen Garden: The End of the Potatoes
Are you tired of seeing photos of potatoes yet? Here are the last couple of baskets of this year’s potato crop. There’s Desiree and the Russian Banana fingerlings. I also had my first handful of pole beans yesterday, and we’re continuing to get very tasty tomatoes. As Bill Finch noted in last week’s garden column, [...]
Food of the Moment: Kale