What you can grow in a container vegetable garden is limited only by the size of the container and your imagination. How about a Summer Salad container? Plant a tomato, a cucumber and some parsley or chives all in a large (24-30″) …

They allow cucumbers on LOD though, and we grew them in our garden this summer. She ate a cucumber almost every day all summer. She also happened to have a lot of tantrums this summer as well, and I just discovered that cucumbers are high …. If the farmers are spraying these fruits with harsh chemical pesticides, I would think that maybe the plant is “thinking” that…

What you can grow in a container vegetable garden is limited only by the size of the container and your imagination. How about a Summer Salad container? Plant a tomato, a cucumber and some parsley or chives all in a large (24-30″) …

Alex Summer, RA Sushi’s beverage director, has made this annual cocktail menu update one that moves the restaurant toward fresh ingredients and more complex flavors.

I second the cucumber water. I mostly drink it in the summer when the cukes are growing out of control in the garden. I will think of doing a version on Turkey Day too! 6:33 PM · Erin @ SYL: Slipcover Your Life said. …

I love growing strange plants that I’ve never tried. These are true to their name and do taste like pineapple. They made some great fresh salsa over the summer. Since tomatillos can keep for months if left in their husks I could collect … I’ve found all tomatillos attract cucumber beetles to the garden. That is the bad news. The good news is that they make a great…

One of the coolest parties to come out of Ibiza this summer didn’t feature the next big DJ — nor was it fuelled by the next designer high.

Q. I am a new vegetable gardener. Cucumber beetles decimated my cucumbers this summer. How can I prevent this problem next year? A.

If your summer IS long and warm, plant gourd seeds outside when the soil is warm, as you do for gourd’s cousins like cucumbers or squash. Each well prepped planting hole will support two or three growing vines. Starting with five seeds …

San Diego’s near-perfect climate means picnic outings don’t have to be reserved for just the summer months. Whether it is staged at a favorite waterside spot, a neighborhood park or backcountry retreat, an outdoors repast can be an anytime indulgence.

Here’s where the adventure comes in. I left them right where they were. It was nearly October and that’s when you’re supposed to plant cloves. We’ll see if I get garlic growing next year. Maybe next June I’ll be able to convince my brother … What I mean is my tall broccoli plants shaded the heck out of my cucumber starts so I got nothing to speak of…

After the summer salmon season wraps up, Alaska’s fishing industry begins a big line up of fall fisheries that can last through the winter. Starting Oct. 1, the fall Dungeness crab season opens in Southeast Alaska for roughly 200 crabbers, along with several shrimp fisheries.

COTTER — Something mysterious was going on at the North Arkansas Youth Center in Cotter this summer. The alarm system kept going off in the middle of the night. Investigators came up empty-handed. And then, the culprits left evidence.

The juice cleanse: you’ve heard about it, but does it work? My internship in Hong Kong, a foodie’s paradise, this summer left me with a line-longer resume and an extra ten pounds. I was getting stressed about not fitting into old clothes and my body’s horizontal growth I could see in the mirror.

The sunny cuisine of the Middle East has arrived in Mystic, just in time for a long, cold, dark winter. The Pita Spot – a name that can’t begin to capture the riches of the menu – arrived over the summer, and based on a recent lunch and dinner, has, without any advertising, captured the loyalty of many area residents

Hi Tom, I have planted my summer vegies of zucchini, silverbeet, cucumber and tomatos. I dug cow and chook poo + blood and bone in before planting and the vegie are growing but they are soft and pale, in the heat of the day they all droop … The plants don’t seem to have…