Great Pumpkins: Eye Candy and Great Eating!
Some stylish pumpkins rockin' the boardwalk.
Rotting remnants of October's once artfully-carved pumpkins stain a stoop or two on my quirky island, but for the...
Cuke Rebuke: Lessons of a Reluctant Pickle Puss
Taking one for the team: a real-life reenactment of what happens when a happy man consumes a bitter pickle.
Bitter Cucumbers: What Gives?
I may be...
Homemade Pickles: A Cucumber of Worthy Intent
Homemade Pickles cucumbers
A good pickle is worth its weight in apricot jam (another favorite of mine), but it takes a great cucumber to make...
Homegrown Video: How Does My Garden Grow?
Homegrown Video and What's in my GardenKale starts, two months later you did me proud.
Having discovered the video setting on my point-and-shoot camera, has...
Crowning Kale the King of Garden Greens
Kale Caesar!*
A nice surprise is one of life's little pleasures, that startling little epiphany that has you reassessing your tired old ways and preconceived...
Growing Tomatoes: Tips, Pics & Tom’s Two Cents
Previous Posts: All About Growing Tomatoes
List of Tom's TOP Tomato Picks: Slicer, Salad, Paste, and Cherry
Homegrown tomatoes, there's nothing quite like them to wake...
Saving Pumpkins: How to Store Winter Squash
Here's to a long (shelf) life
Fresh food storage is a tricky business; what's good for the potato and parsnip gets a pshaw from the...
My Favorite Pumpkins on Parade, Warts and All
Here's a list and some photos of my favorite pumpkins and winter squash. Give them some room, water and ample composted manure and the...
Confessions of a Pumpkinhead
Hi, my name is Tom and I'm a bona fide pumpkinhead. Yes, I admit it; I'm a man who loves the genus Cucurbita. Whether...
Snip It: The Best Way to Pick Cherry Tomatoes
My heart belongs to the big ol' Daddy tomatoes, the slicers, the small planets that make a BLT (and again, my heart) sing. Sure ...