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salad savvy with ellen ogden (win her kitchen-garden book!), and more weed i.d. help
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I'm re-sowing greens galore, spurred onward by the welcome shift in weather -- the monsoon desisted! -- and also by a chat with salad savant Ellen Ecker Ogden. Thanks to Ellen, my palette of ingredients is widening, and I've got several new variations on vinaigrette to taste-test, too. Get her recipes and advice now (in print or podcast), and maybe win a copy of "The Complete Kitchen Garden," which marries Ellen's designs for edible gardens (that's hers, above) with 100 of her best seasonal recipes.
name those weeds: hello, galinsoga and commelina
I had to laugh when I read that Galinsoga, a vegetable-garden weed I'm all too familiar with (photo above), is also known as "gallant soldier" for marching forward energetically. A trooper, indeed. And finally -- finally! -- I know the name of the blue-flowered thing that looks like someone dropped some pieces of their spiderwort houseplant in my garden. Hello, Commelina. As always, I'm encouraging myself (and you) to put names to our weeds, because knowledge is power. This week, two more names to perhaps add to your list. Anybody look familiar?
miss these last issue?
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