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What to Do with Garlic Scapes (Every Way I Use Them from the Garden)
If you grow hardneck garlic, you get two harvests. Most people know about the bulbs: the papery heads you pull in midsummer, braid, and hang in the kitchen. Fewer people know about what comes first: the scapes. Every spring, a few weeks before the bulbs are ready, each hardneck plant sends up a slender green…
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How to Make Garlic Scape Pesto
Every June, the hardneck garlic does something generous before the bulbs are ready: it sends up scapes. Those curling green shoots have to come off anyway, leaving them on redirects energy away from the bulb, so the question is always what to do with them. My answer, more often than not, is pesto. Garlic scape…
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How to Make Pickled Garlic Scapes
If you grow hardneck garlic, you already know the best-kept secret of scape season: you get two harvests. The bulbs come later in summer, but weeks before that, every plant sends up a curling green shoot, the scape, that needs to come off anyway. Snapping it off redirects the plant’s energy back into the bulb…
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How to Make Homemade Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
Learn how to make homemade strawberry rhubarb jam without pectin. A foolproof, beginner-friendly recipe with tips on canning, freezing, and getting a perfect set every time.
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Rhubarb Compote Recipe with Vanilla & Citrus
If you’ve got rhubarb on hand, this is the recipe I come back to more than any other. It’s just rhubarb, sugar, vanilla, and citrus, simmered down until it’s soft and glossy but still a little chunky, and it earns its keep in my fridge all spring. I spoon it over vanilla ice cream more…
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How to Make Homemade Rhubarb Lemonade Juice Concentrate
Every spring, my rhubarb patch comes back faster than I can keep up with it. A pie and a jar or two of jam only use up so much, and there’s always a pile of stalks left on the counter looking for a job. This concentrate is what I make with the rest of it,…
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How to Freeze Rhubarb
Rhubarb season is wonderful and fleeting. One week you’re barely keeping up with all those gorgeous stalks coming in, and the next, the season is winding down and you’re wishing you’d put more away for later. The good news is that rhubarb freezes beautifully. It’s genuinely one of the easiest things to preserve, and having…
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A Complete Guide to Harvesting and Storing Rhubarb
There are few things more satisfying on a spring homestead than that first harvest of rhubarb. It’s one of the earliest edible plants to come up in the garden, it comes back reliably year after year, and a mature plant will produce more stalks than most families can use in a season. But knowing when…
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Everything you Should be Doing in Your Veggie Garden in August
August is one of the most rewarding—and slightly chaotic—months in the vegetable garden. Things are growing fast, harvests are coming in daily, and at the same time you’re starting to think about fall. Here’s a simple guide to help you stay on top of everything. Contents 1. Harvest (Almost Daily) August is peak harvest season…
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How to Divide Chive Plants
If you’ve been growing chives for more than a couple of years, you’ve probably noticed that what started as a tidy little clump has slowly turned into a dense, grassy mound. That’s chives doing exactly what chives do — they spread and multiply, year after year. The good news is that all that growth means…
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