Essentially we have 2 kinds in the house. Larger elongated purple plums bought from the local grocery store, but locally grown, they're quite sweet and, for the most part, free stone. And smaller, more like very large grapes, purple plums grown by the neighbour the flesh is yellower, and they're quite tart and they're cling stone. For the moment we ( Read more... )

Another Market Day has come and gone, and this time of year root veg is the name of the game. Admttedly this past week has been unseasonably warm but it's still chill enough to crave thick rich warm soups.

So when Canadian Gardening's weekly email came across my desktop with Fall Root Vegetable Soup well it just filled a natural niche and even the ( Read more... )