Organic Edible Garden Blog
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Organic Edible Garden is a website with up-to-the-minute blog posts and videos on how to grow great-tasting vegetables and fruit in your own backyard.
Organic Edible Garden Blog
5d ago
Our garden has been looking like a wasteland with the pumpkins matured and ready for harvesting and the tomatoes at their end. So, time for some action – clearing it all up and preparing our beds for winter crops. Firstly, the pumpkins. Make sure you include a good-sized stalk when cutting them off their vines. ..read more
Organic Edible Garden Blog
1M ago
NECTARINE TART Base: 1 ½ cups flour 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder finely grated zest of 1 lemon ¼ teaspoon nutmeg 125 grams butter 2 tablespoons caster sugar 1 egg Topping: 3 tablespoons apricot jam 3-4 nectarines ¼ cup dried cranberries 2 tablespoons caster sugar To serve: 3 tablespoons apricot jam, warmed Preheat the oven ..read more
Organic Edible Garden Blog
1M ago
Hot hot days and lots of produce, too much some days. Best collected at the beginning or end of the day (my favourite). I preserve, give away to family and friends and put some in the local Pataka Kai, doing my bit to help with the local food movement. I’ve followed Helena Norberg-Hodge from Local ..read more
Organic Edible Garden Blog
2M ago
Happy New Year to you! We trust it has started well. For us, January is the month to enjoy beans, zucchini, cucumber and lettuces. Although we’ve had plenty of rain, there have been warm days, enough to burn the tips of lettuces, so just a reminder to cover the tops of your lettuce beds with ..read more
Organic Edible Garden Blog
3M ago
SAUERKRAUT 1 cabbage salt jar with lid Weigh your cabbage to work out how much salt you need. For every 450 grams use 1 ½ teaspoons salt. Remove outer damaged leaves and cut out the core of your cabbage, wash well. Reserve one outer leaf. Thinly shred the cabbage, place in a large bowl, sprinkle ..read more
Organic Edible Garden Blog
3M ago
We’re a bit late getting this month’s blog out to you. Some sadness in our family taking precedence over the garden. Tomatoes dominate. Mine have been let to run wild and I’ve kind of missed the boat to delateral them. It’s best done when they’re smaller, so you can get some good strong leaders growing. ..read more
Organic Edible Garden Blog
4M ago
The seeds we sowed five weeks ago are now ready for planting. November is the month of planting basically all our summer crops. I could have had our seedlings in a week ago, but I’ve been too busy. As a result, as you’ll see, they started to go a bit yellow in parts – a ..read more
Organic Edible Garden Blog
5M ago
CAULIFLOWER SALAD 2 DRESSING: 1 teaspoon ground cumin ½ teaspoon ground turmeric ½ cup grape seed or rice bran oil 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar 1 tablespoon runny honey sea salt and freshly ground pepper SALAD: 1 medium cauliflower 1 small red onion, finely sliced ½ cup sultanas ½ cup sliced almonds Add all the ..read more
Organic Edible Garden Blog
5M ago
Tomato seedlings are coming along nicely. They’ve been outside for a while now due to lack of space inside. But, I reckon they’re doing well enough and will be a good enough size by the time we come to plant them out at the end of the month. So this month is dominated by seed ..read more
Organic Edible Garden Blog
6M ago
FLORENCE FENNEL SALAD 1 medium fennel bulb ½ or 1 small red onion 2 tablespoons capers small handful mint leaves lettuce or rocket or baby spinach DRESSING: 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 clove garlic, crushed sea salt and freshly ground pepper Add all dressing ingredients to a small jar and ..read more