GOOD IDEAS

A Dash of Basalt in Your Soil, Ma'm?

A locally produced rock offers a steady dose of minerals and trace elements to garden soil and containers. It might even make your tomatoes taste better!

06/14/2013 By Kate Bryant

GARDENING

When To Plant Tomatoes

How do you know when to plant tomatoes and other warm-weather veggies outside, anyway? There's a simple answer!

05/31/2013 By Kate Bryant

EDIBLE GARDENING

Shade Tolerant Vegetables

Try these 15 (or more) shade tolerant veggies in your garden this year!

04/18/2013 By Kate Bryant

EDIBLE GARDENING

Five Favorite Asian Veggies to Grow This Year

Five favorite uncommon and delicious Asian veggies to grow in your garden this year

04/05/2013 By Kate Bryant

PLANT PICKS

Grow Easy, Delectable Portuguese Kale

Gloriously sweet, tender, and oh-so-productive Portuguese kale is a cinch to grow—and now's the time to plant it!

03/22/2013 By Kate Bryant

PLANTWISE: GET GROWING

Start Your Own Seeds

It's easy, it's fun and doesn't need to cost much

02/12/2013 By Kate Bryant

classes

Cooking With Winter Vegetables

Katherine Deumling, Slow Food advocate and owner of Cook With What You Have, demonstrates how to prepare wholesome, delicious meals with seasonal produce

11/02/2012 By Kate Bryant

get growing

Get Garlic Now!

Local nurseries have just received shipments of garlic and shallots - pick out the best varieties and fattest cloves while they're fresh!

09/28/2012 By Kate Bryant

events

Northwest VegFest

A vegetarian celebration - and an opportunity for any kind of eater to find cooking and eating inspiration in plant-based foods

09/19/2012 By Kate Bryant

READ EM AND EAT

Win a Copy of Diane Morgan's Roots

Eat Beat snagged a copy of the Portland author's latest culinary tome, and we're giving it away to one lucky reader.

09/11/2012 By Allison Jones

garden events

Tomato Taste Off 2012

Territorial Seed Co holds its annual Tomato Taste Off - a chance for gardeners around the PNW to compete for cash prizes

09/04/2012 By Kate Bryant

get dirty

Seedheads and Self-Sowing Surprises

should they stay or should they go?

08/20/2010 By Kate Bryant

Get Dirty

Summer’s Here and the Time is Right – to Plant Veges!

07/05/2010 By Kate Bryant

things to do

Visit Luscher Farm

Oregon Tilth Organic demonstration gardens, a clematis vine collection, community gardens, Three Rivers Land Conservancy trails and more

06/30/2010 By Kate Bryant

edible gardening

Grafted Tomatoes

An old-fashioned technique with a new use for home vegetable gardeners

06/21/2010 By Kate Bryant

edible gardening

Top Tomato Tip

05/23/2010 By Kate Bryant

Get Dirty

Get Out and Plant Your Veggies!

beans, squash, and cukes – oh my!

05/14/2010 By Kate Bryant

Edible Gardening

Purple-Sprouting Broccoli

Nearly nine months from sowing to eating – it’s almost like having a baby!

04/24/2010 By Kate Bryant

Edible Gardening

My Vegetable Garden’s TV Debut

featuring mâche – a fantastic early spring green

04/21/2010 By Kate Bryant

upcoming events

It’s Spudtacular!

learn everything you need to know to grow the humble spud

03/19/2010 By Kate Bryant