Harvest & Kitchen

Home-Grown Leeks and Edible Flowers: Reading Traditional Uses in Context

Home-Grown Leeks and Edible Flowers: Reading Tr...

Use home-grown leeks as a mild base for edible flower garnishes. Confirm flower identity and the edible part, then prepare a fresh leek dish with petals at serving.

Home-Grown Leeks and Edible Flowers: Reading Tr...

Use home-grown leeks as a mild base for edible flower garnishes. Confirm flower identity and the edible part, then prepare a fresh leek dish with petals at serving.

Eggplant Color, Shape and Texture: What to Look For Before You Buy

Eggplant Color, Shape and Texture: What to Look...

Use color, gloss, calyx condition, weight and shape to judge eggplant quality and match fruit and seedlings to your kitchen and growing season.

Eggplant Color, Shape and Texture: What to Look...

Use color, gloss, calyx condition, weight and shape to judge eggplant quality and match fruit and seedlings to your kitchen and growing season.

Rosemary That Earns Its Place: Planning Kitchen Herbs for Flavor and Form

Rosemary That Earns Its Place: Planning Kitchen...

Grow culinary rosemary as both a kitchen herb and a garden feature. Choose upright or compact forms, site for sun and drainage, harvest tips for density, and use fresh, dried...

Rosemary That Earns Its Place: Planning Kitchen...

Grow culinary rosemary as both a kitchen herb and a garden feature. Choose upright or compact forms, site for sun and drainage, harvest tips for density, and use fresh, dried...

Blanching Eggplants: How Color Signals the Right Moment

Blanching Eggplants: How Color Signals the Righ...

A practical guide to blanching homegrown eggplant before freezing, using flesh color to judge timing, plus cooling, tray-freezing, and equipment tips.

Blanching Eggplants: How Color Signals the Righ...

A practical guide to blanching homegrown eggplant before freezing, using flesh color to judge timing, plus cooling, tray-freezing, and equipment tips.

Sort Homegrown Figs for Better Eating, Showing and Giving

Sort Homegrown Figs for Better Eating, Showing ...

A practical guide to separating homegrown figs by ripeness and condition, using the best fruit for display, the firm ones for cooking, and fruit and leaf traits to choose fig...

Sort Homegrown Figs for Better Eating, Showing ...

A practical guide to separating homegrown figs by ripeness and condition, using the best fruit for display, the firm ones for cooking, and fruit and leaf traits to choose fig...

Okra Harvest to Storage: Washing and Drying for a Better Pod

Okra Harvest to Storage: Washing and Drying for...

Learn when to wash home-grown okra, how to dry pods thoroughly, and how to store them for better texture and longer kitchen quality.

Okra Harvest to Storage: Washing and Drying for...

Learn when to wash home-grown okra, how to dry pods thoroughly, and how to store them for better texture and longer kitchen quality.