Summer stone fruit flavors a quick-cooking sauce
New! Banana blueberry pancakes (with one banana lots of blueberries).
New! Pick your garden favorites for a quick side dish
New! Grilled apricot and feta salad with balsamic vinaigrette
New! Easy fruit creation's worth a little oven time
Recipe: Fresh raspberry fool with a rosy twist
New! Late-spring combination works for summer cookouts, too
New! Shrimp pot pie with fresh peas, carrots and spring onions
New! Ricotta the secret ingredient to these baked treats
New! Savory cherry sauce with sweet onions goes great with pork, chicken
New! Spring asparagus blends well with green garlic
NEW! Fresh strawberry-orange salsa with green onions
NEW Upside-down cake features stripes of rhubarb, dots of blueberries
NEW Strawberries and cream scones with orange zest
NEW Strawberries shine, raspberries add color to versatile sauce
NEW Ham and baby potato casserole with glazed carrots
NEW Chocolate glaze especially appropriate for a holiday dessert
NEW Baked lemon-Dijon chicken thighs with herbs
NEW Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this delicious side dish
Recipe: Mom’s chili and beans with grated cheese and onions
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Garden Checklist for week of July 21
Your garden needs you!
* Keep your vegetable garden watered, mulched and weeded. Water before 8 a.m. to reduce the chance of fungal infection and to conserve moisture.
* Feed vegetable plants bone meal, rock phosphate or other fertilizers high in phosphate to stimulate more blooms and fruiting. (But wait until daily high temperatures drop out of the 100s.)
* Don’t let tomatoes wilt or dry out completely. Give tomatoes a deep watering two to three times a week.
* Harvest vegetables promptly to encourage plants to produce more. Squash especially tends to grow rapidly in hot weather. Keep an eye on zucchini.
* Pinch back chrysanthemums for bushy plants and more flowers in September.
* Remove spent flowers from roses, daylilies and other bloomers as they finish flowering.
* Pinch off blooms from basil so the plant will grow more leaves.
* Cut back lavender after flowering to promote a second bloom.
* It's not too late to add a splash of color. Plant petunias, snapdragons, zinnias and marigolds.
* From seed, plant corn, pumpkins, radishes, winter squash and sunflowers.
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