If you must avoid gluten or wheat products please give this easy pancake recipe a try. I’ve made these since I was a child. They hold together, taste good, and are no fuss. Top with rhubarb sauce, pumpkin butter or maple syrup.
Raised Buckwheat Pancakes
2 cups 110 degree milk
1 teaspoon dry yeast
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 cups [...]
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Keane and I are leaving for Central Oregon today where I will give talks on Successful Food Gardening in Central Oregon and a demonstration talk on Edible Container Gardening. Of course I’ll be signing copies of McGee & Stuckey’s The Bountiful Container. A few more talks are coming up, May 9th I’ll speak in Anchorage [...]
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Most tomato gardeners have seen or experienced blossom-end rot on tomatoes. It appears at the base of the tomato…the portion that is fastest growing and forms an unattractive black decayed appearance. Also a fruit so affected generally ceases to grow or grows slowly.The following information applies to all tomato gardeners, whether growing in ground, containers, [...]
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Today, a customer writes: “I’m interested in creating straw bale gardens this year. Many web sites instruct one to use ammonium nitrate to prepare the bale but
yours does not. Does your method prepare the bale for planting
tomatoes and eggplant or just mainly salad greens? I prefer not to
use ammonium nitrate but at the same time [...]
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