Overview The mustard plant is an excellent choice for a home garden. It is easy to grow, quick to mature, and it can be grown in a wide variety of climates. Most gardeners will be interested in its green leaves for salads, but its seeds can also be used to make the popular condiment so ...
Many of us remember those long winter months, when we started to plan our vegetable gardens for next summer. We gathered the seed catalogs, bought our potting soil, and set our flats in front of the sunniest window in the house, so we’d be ready when the soil warmed up enough in the spring to ...
The origin of Hoppin’ John is debatable. Most likely the dish was first made in South Carolina by plantation slaves. South Carolina, in the mid 1800’s was well known for growing the finest rice in the Americas. Rice, smoked ham hocks and dried black-eyed peas are the ingredients for Hoppin’ John. All these ingredients were ...
Do you find yourself feeling lethargic at your desk after lunch? Are you becoming more and more forgetful? Do you need to be more alert at school? Is multi-tasking becoming a thing of the past? It is possible to keep your mind from becoming as dull as number two pencil during a standardized test. Simply ...
Just as there are spring vegetables there are spring herbs. These are the herbs that are peaking through the ground at the first sign of spring or herbs that can be planted as soon as the ground can be worked. These are the herbs the early colonist used in the spring as a tonic to ...
