Everything You Should Document Right Now for Next Year’s Garden
The sometimes magical, sometimes annoying thing about your garden is how much it changes. Things look very different in early summer than they will in November, to the point that…
These Vegetables Will Still Ripen After You Pick Them
This time of year, gardeners have to make hard choices. Rain and overnight chills present risks to your vegetables on the plant, but you also want to be sure you’re…
Four Ways to Preserve All Your Tomatoes at the Same Time
In the most ideal world, you would process all your tomatoes in one weekend. Save the miserable task of heating up the kitchen, burning your fingers and being endlessly on…
Do These Tasks This Month to Prepare Your Garden for Fall
If you’re in a part of the world where the temperature is currently Hell + 23 degrees, I see you. It may be hard to believe that fall is just…
10 Tasty Ways You Should Be Eating Tomatoes
It’s the most wonderful time of the year—tomato season. Tomato season is brief and fleeting, however, so it’s best to go into it with a plan to maximize the potential…
Make Easy Garden Pest Traps With These Common Kitchen Staples
In my garden, I’m the hero. I raised those plant babies—I fed and watered them, encouraged them with daily affirmations, and then mark their progress each day in the garden…
Cheaper Capers Are Already In Your Garden
Capers are the exclamation point on a dish. The tiny buds of pickle-y brightness function as a kind of pick-me-up. All tomato sauces, and any risotto benefit from them, most…
The Secret to Keeping Your Tomatoes Super Fresh
Photo: sungsu han (Shutterstock) One of my favorite parts of summer is eating my weight in tomato sandwiches, but I can get a little overzealous, and end up with a…
All the Ways You Can Use Peaches Like Tomatoes
If I were to give you a peach and tell you it was basically a tomato, you would look at me with concern. and you would be wrong to do…
For Better Tasting Tomatoes, Dip Them in Warm Water Before Chilling
Photo: Kamil Zajaczkowski (Shutterstock) Legend has it, tomatoes must stay on the countertop. Claire Lower, Lifehacker’s senior food editor, famously refuses to put them in the fridge. Sadly, not everyone…