Now that I’ve planted and grown all those potatoes last year, what was my favorite way to eat them? Roasting on the grill! This is a great simple recipe that can be adapted for the grill or the oven. Pick your favorite potatoes. I mainly used thin skinned Yukon Gold or an assortment of the … Continue reading Grill Roasted Potatoes
Earlier this week, I wrote about planting potatoes in both in bags and potato hills (Growing Potatoes Part 1: Preparation and Planting). That was the work part, watching them grow and harvesting was the easy part. Two important things to remember as the summer wore on. Keep them watered (!) and keep adding soil periodically … Continue reading Potatoes Part 2: Growing and Harvesting
Each year I like to try something new in the garden. Potatoes sounded like a fun and pretty easy experiment, so I became a potato farmer last spring. I bought Yukon Gold and a Red, White and Blue blend of seed potatoes from Home Depot and French Fingerlings from a local nursery. Like garlic, you … Continue reading Potatoes Part 1: Preparation and Planting
Thanksgiving is right around the corner and it’s not going to be what any of us imagined. But that’s ok and what we need to do right now. We’ll make it up for it next year! To be honest though, for a variety of reasons our Thanksgivings have always been small, ranging from 3-9 people … Continue reading Thanksgiving 2020, Covid Style
This has been a very hectic December at my house. Are you as behind in Christmas shopping and preparations as I am? Here’s some (slightly late) holiday gift giving ideas from things I love! Friends: Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means I earn a small commission for each sale. All reviews … Continue reading 2019 Stephi Gardens Holiday Gift Ideas
Happy New Year! Its always fun the end of the years to see what was the most interesting posts to my readers. Sometime it’s posts from previous years, sometimes this year. Here’s the top 10 most viewed posts in 2018:
You may have noticed I took another little break from blogging. Nothing exciting going on, just got busy with some other projects. But, my garden is in full growing mode after a tough winter and spring. Winter was long, cold and at our place in Door Co, WI, very snowy. Spring came slow and seemed … Continue reading Spring Into Summer
One of my favorite flavors to cook with is leeks. They have a unique and interesting mild onion taste and are part of the allium family that also includes onions, garlic, shallots, scallions and chives. Last year, I found I had wild leeks (ramps) on our WI property and have really enjoyed finding, harvesting and cooking with them (see Spring Leeks (aka … Continue reading Leeks!
My spring vegetables really took a beating from the rabbits and the weather. Even though I had shored up the rabbit fence around the yard, all it took was a couple of holes and I had a nice happy family of rabbits devouring almost everything I planted. Radishes, swiss chard, spinach, lettuce, kale, beets and … Continue reading July Vegetables
It’s always fun to spend time in January and February going through all the seed and garden catalogs to see what I am going to grow this year. It’s also during that time, I wish I had bigger gardens and more sun to really plant huge vegetable and flower gardens. But I have what I … Continue reading What Am I Growing-2017