The Opinionated Gardener

This is where you can save a significant amount of money, water and all around make your beds into worm-factories, water saving, vegetable pumping super stars! I filled the entire bottom of each beds with vegetable debris. I dumped everything I could find, from autumn leaves to sticks and branche...

Turn your delicious, traditional pesto on its head! Here I used my last harvest of Purple Ruffles Basil to make a striking purple basil, just as delicious as any homemade basil can be, but with a color that will keep you going back for more, time after time. 

Are you itching clean up and prepare your garden beds? To run your fingers in the damp, fresh soil and inhale once again that rich, organic smell? To create those neat little furrows in the dark soil and drop those precious, tiny seeds in, knowing magic will run its course and soon wondrous seedl...

Starting your own pepper seedling is easy!    Peppers are one of my favorite vegetables to grow! I love everything about them, from the large, sweet bell peppers like Keystone Giant, the flavor-bombs like Yellow Sweet Habanero and the hot jewels of the kitchen like Ancho Poblano. The endless dive...