I don't know why but the picture of this salad just makes me want to add cold cooked green beans & cold cooked quartered red potatoes to the salad. It just cries out for those additions to me.I will probably use romaine instead of arugula as I love romaine so much. I might skip the peppers too. I guess that's what's good about salads--you can … [Read more...]
A Master Gardener’s Zero Cost Composting Method with Almost Zero Work
My dad's passion was gardening. He was a certified Master Gardener and a winner of hundreds of first prizes for his roses. He was also a child of the Great Depression, so he knew how to save a buck. For his beloved roses he used a system that included using "manure tea" (google it) and made his own mulch with a chipper and fallen/pruned tree … [Read more...]