Sometimes it seems like our northern gardens are reluctant to get growing in the spring. It’s as if everything is in slow motion… the first seeds to sprout, the first blossoms to unfold… it feels like we wait and wait and wait.   As we pace through our early season garden in search of something…

Growing greens — lettuce, spinach, arugula and other leafy things — in your vegetable garden produces big pay-offs in taste and nutrition for relatively little effort. And, nothing says summer has arrived quite like a trip to the garden to cut lettuce for a salad. As with any vegetable garden, the first rule is to…

Aw, the Minnesota State Fair. It’s been a long time since the last great get-together, when we unveiled our popular “Garden to Glass” display, which included four tasty recipes for drinks you can make with garden-grown produce and herbs. The garden is under snow now, but if you have some homegrown or store-bought strawberries in…