News Stories - Page 691
News from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Six new vegetable garden cultivars have been awarded All America Selections
for 2002. Based on their performance in test gardens all over the country, these
new plants have been judged as superior in their class.
There was a time a gardener could simply plant the same tomato or squash variety year after year with no problem. It usually tasted great, was easy to grow or was an heirloom variety handed down over the generations. Those days are increasingly gone.
If you prefer to use few or no pesticides in your garden, you can still grow
bountiful crops. The secret to organic gardening is to follow good gardening
practices as closely as possible.
One of the greatest restaurants I've ever eaten in is now gone.
What made it great? You went in, sat down and ate what Mary had prepared that day. What the boat brought in, she fixed. And if the catch was poor, she would close up with a note on the door.
A little roadside restaurant over in south Alabama would cause me to plant
more tomatoes, especially for my wife. Why? Because they make a sandwich that's out of this world. It's a "Southern BLT."
It's not just a BLT. It's a BLT made with fried green tomatoes.
Consider building your next garden around what you eat. Kitchen gardens are
an old idea that deserve a second look. They enable you to enjoy meals with
a gourmet taste at homegrown prices.
Will the children eat vegetables if we make them into desserts? Probably so.
Just don't tell them they're vegetables.
Chives grow wild in Italy and Greece and probably came with the explorers to the New World.
Transplants can make your garden more successful. And they've been around for a long time, although they haven't always been available in nice, easy-to-handle six-packs.