Late Bloomer – Winter Garden Wrap-up – Episode 32 finds Kaye pulling out all the sweet peas in her winter garden. It’s Easter and time to prepare for the summer garden. She learns the lesson, again, not to crowd vegetables together, especially in a coastal microclimate. Kaye runs into the usual suspects, aphids, slugs and […]
Late Bloomer Lesson #1 for Garden Issues covers a problem that has arisen in July in the Late Bloomer Garden. If you have downloaded my free ebook, “10 Steps to a Great First Garden,” (sign-up box on right), you will have heard of my LBL’s, or Late Bloomer Lessons. The beautiful, wondrous and sometimes frustrating thing about […]
Late Bloomer – Arts & Ag – Part 3 – Episode 31 completes the trilogy Kaye shot over Memorial Day weekend in Hickman County, Tennessee. From locally grown foods and live music to handmade goods, the Arts & Ag Tour had it all! Kaye’s first stop is just outside Centerville, where she checks out antiques at April’s Attic, […]
Late Bloomer – Arts & Ag – Part 2 – Episode 30 covers Kaye’s visit to Hickman County, Tennessee, over Memorial Day weekend. From locally grown foods and live music to handmade goods, the Arts & Ag Tour had it all! Local photographer Cindy Sarlo captured all 25 exhibitors over Friday and Saturday. Check out her Arts & Ag […]
Late Bloomer – Arts & Ag – Part 1 – Episode 29 covers Kaye’s visit to Hickman County, Tennessee, over Memorial Day weekend. From locally grown foods and live music to handmade goods, the Arts & Ag Tour had it all! Part 1 begins with a quick stop into Wild Duck Soup Emporium on the public square in […]
Mennonites living a meaningful life in Middle Tennessee & the availability of fresh produce & dairy – I checked my thesaurus for the word meaningful and found these adjectives: significant, relevant, important, consequential, valid, worthwhile, sincere, deep, serious, in earnest, expressive, and eloquent. I found, on my recent trip to Tennessee, every one of these descriptions to be true. First, a […]
Preserving the old corn growing traditions is what Tim Hobbs, millwright and master corn grinder, and his wife Frances are doing in Bon Aqua, Tennessee. On a recent visit to Tennessee, my home state, I dropped in on Tim and Frances, retired schoolteachers, to learn how Tim is perserving the old corn growing traditions and […]
Zucchini carpaccio, “better than sex,” is a recipe I received from an old friend, Gary Hochberg, who responded to a call I posted for zucchini recipes on Late Bloomer Show Facebook page. Gary got the recipe from his friend, Kris Russo, at whose home he has eaten it many times. She had copied it from […]
Gardens build community, believe it! Grow a veggie garden in your front yard, spend some time out in it and you will meet neighbors who stop and admire what you are doing. That happens almost every day to me, and it’s the most rewarding aspect of growing your own food, that, and discovering sprouts pushing […]
Late Bloomer – Summer Garden Plantings on Mother’s Day is online! Kaye reviews what’s planted in her front yard organic garden for summer from veggies to perennials, to herbs and berries in pots, all to the original guitar compositions by Jon Pileggi! In addition to all the edibles named in the episode, there is an artichoke, […]
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