Sorghum: The Sweet Taste of Success

Sorghum; the sweet extracted juice This Summer's boulevard garden was a great success. The broom corn reached a record height of 15' 8". Nestled among the amaranth, broom corn, cotton, beets,…

Horseradish, of Plague and Pleasure

Horseradish leaves in my garden in the Fall  The first  thing we harvest from our garden in the Spring is horseradish for our traditional Passover plate. We dig up the root ,wash…

One Hot Tomato!

This article alludes to our tomatoes at  www.124merton.com Mintz: A funny bone with no meat on it At the Rivoli, for the Sunday night Laugh Sabbath event that was supposed to…

Summer Squash: Sunshine

In the third quarter of July, I noticed a little empty space in the garden leading to the house. It was a stubborn piece of earth. In that spot, I had tried…

Too many tomatoes? Let’s play ketchup

The rays of the late afternoon sun are lengthening and what seemed impossible two months earlier is now a reality; there are too many tomatoes to eat and too little…

Clockwork orange

orange in the garden,caro rich tomatoes,carrots,orange stemmed chard,nasturtiums and marigolds  Like clockwork, a year to the day, since our last year's tomato tasting, Corey Mintz shows up at my door…