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Yes, of course I make vegetable soups: onion soup, split pea, lentil, sweet potato-greens, carrot-ginger, and so on. But a less-specific catch-all “vegetable soup” wasn’t in my repertory. Irene (who co-wrote “Beard on Pasta” with James Beard, and until recently taught food writing at NYU) fixed that.irene’s vegetable soup, my way(I say “my way” because the “recipe” on that napkin didn’t actually give proportions of anything, just, “diced onions, celery, carrots…” and because Irene says, “zucchini doesn’t add much to the mix” so she skips it. Me? I’m looking for ways to use up my summer-squash harvest at the moment. When I showed her the photo, Irene said, “Mine is redder,” meaning more tomatoes, and that’s the point: Balance the “recipe” according to your taste, and the garden’s offerings.)

AT THIS STAGE in my long garden career—I’ve been digging holes 30-plus years on this piece of land—I find myself frequently conducting self-styled madcap experiments to learn more, more, more, and meet more living things.Like “un-mowing” areas I’d treated as “lawn” for years to watch what pops up; like plugging in small divisions (or seedlings) of natives to the unmown areas to try to make them into thriving pollinator communities; like figuring out which “weeds” to pull out of those unwown mini-meadows-to-be; like handling the decline or outright demise of big trees in the garden differently; like cleaning up less obsessively in fall, especially, to support more overwintering insects

Ronna Welsh, a former restaurant cook who operates the New York cooking school called Purple Kale Kitchenworks, has been teaching chefs and home cooks for more than 20 years. Her new book’s full title is “The Nimble Cook: New Strategies for Great Meals that Make the Most of Your Ingredients,” and in it we learn to look for what she calls “starting points” that the ingredients we have on hand can offer, and to start to see the many potential incarnations of each one. You’ll never take a head of celery for granted again, or be so inclined to let partial bunches of fresh herbs languish under everything else in the “crisper” bin till they’re anything but crisp.Read along as you listen to the July 29, 2019 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).Plus: Enter to win the cookbook in the comments box at the very bottom of the page, and also get Ronna’

If you love vivid foliage, then check out these Colorful Plants to Grow in Water that’ll surely be a great addition to your collection!

Air plants are fascinating. Identified by their spike-like, gray or green, scaly foliage. They are epiphytic plants, and this means that unlike most plants, their survival is not embedded in the soil. They draw moisture and nutrients through scales on their leaves. This makes their care minimal, but that doesn’t mean they don’t get sickly, shriveled, limp, brown, or droopy. They do!

With its honey-sweet fragrance, colorful blossoms, and graceful vining growth habit, it’s easy to fall in love with honeysuckle.So many people have a cherished memory of sipping the sweet ne

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If you want to have a fresh supply of aromatic herbs without dealing soil in your urban home, try these Herbs You Can Grow in Water Indoors All Year Round with ease in a small space.

Coir is the fibrous husk and pithy dust that makes up the outer layer of a ripe coconut. Most of us don’t see this part because it’s removed before the fruits arrive in grocery stores, but it is widely available – as a soilless growing medium.Per the Cambridge Dictionary, the

Coffee, no doubt, is one of the most popular beverages around the globe. Nothing beats a rejuvenating cup of coffee after long hours of sleep or exhausting work schedule. Coffee is also rich in antioxidants and offers significant health benefits as well. ________________________________________________________________________

A garden with a restrained planting palette can be so exciting and atmospheric. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of the white garden. The limitations of choosing plants of a single colour means you can focus your attention; in fact there are so many plants out there that if you don’t have some sort of guiding principles when you set about designing your garden, you will soon be lost and overwhelmed with options.