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Mmmmmm-mmm. Cake in the garden is about pretty, good food from the pretty, good earth. Digging deep into my garden, and cooking the things I grow. If I don't grow it, I find someone nearby who does. Let's talk about kitchen gardening, small market farmers in the Midwest, growing and cooking with herbs, and wine.

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Cake in the Garden · 11M ago

Rubber-Neckin’ to Come

You know what rubber-neckers are, don’t you? Streeeeeetching their necks to see all that can be seen as they drive by an interesting sight. They are typically referred to as the cause of slowing traffic as it passes by a wreck. Twist that connotation around a bit, please, and think of rubber necking

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Cake in the Garden · 1Y ago

Favorite Container Combo

In summers past, while I worked full-time as a garden editor, I woke to watering chores every morning. As many as 40 containers required my attention, in the hopes that each one of them would be photographed for the pages of Better Homes and Gardens, or one of the other magazines I worked on at [...

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Cake in the Garden · 1Y ago

Make This Stuff and Stuff Yourself: Good Grape’s Post

I don’t read many blogs, but there are a few on my GoogleReader that I am nearly always glad to catch up on. One of my favorites is GoodGrape.com. Visit Good Grape for the most recent post, Nine Things Every Wine Lover Must Know How To Make. I have made several of the special treats [...]

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Cake in the Garden · 1Y ago

Post-Tour Turf Repair

Post-Tour Turf Repair. Bet you can’t say that three times real fast. But fast is what I’m going for today. We’ve had over 10 inches of rain just since the first of June, so the grassy paths in my yard were already a little ‘flat’ before 700 pairs of feet strolled through on the garden [...]

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Cake in the Garden · 1Y ago

Put A Hold On My Lavender

Nearly every year, the lavender in my front yard (yes, you can grow lavender in Iowa!) blooms just after Father’s Day. Although it’s about ten days ahead of schedule this year, it absolutely rocks! Hope it holds out for the Polk County Master Gardener Tour on Saturday–some cooler, dryer weather woul

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Cake in the Garden · 1Y ago

Insider’s Scoop on Garden Tour

After putting our house on the market a few months ago, I really didn’t expect we’d still be here. So when the tour committee for the Polk County Master Gardeners asked me to be on this years’ “Extraordinary Gardens by Ordinary People” garden tour on June 19, I told them that I wouldn’t be able [...

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Cake in the Garden · 1Y ago

Move Over, Euell Gibbons

Actually, if you know anything about Euell Gibbons, the title of this post might seem a bit uppity. Anyone my age probably remembers him from his appearances on the Grape Nuts commercials of the 1970′s. Gibbons actually was a respected and knowledgeable outdoorsman and teacher of wild-food foraging,

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Cake in the Garden · 2Y ago

Chicken Pot Pie For Company

I’m all for quick and easy when it’s time to make dinner. But once in a while it’s worth the time it takes to prepare an old-fashioned casserole. Not one that uses canned soup and boxes of stuffing mix–but one that uses lots of fresh ingredients. This chicken pot pie recipe definitely takes a little

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Cake in the Garden · 2Y ago

The Rabbit Lists

I’ve been getting lots of questions from people lately about what they might plant that rabbits won’t eat. It seems they will mow down just about anything–even thorny roses and barberry. I’ve lived in my particular neighborhood in West Des Moines for 10 years, and rabbits have always been a problem.

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Cake in the Garden · 2Y ago

An Herb Garden Shopping List

You should plant a few herbs and see where they take you. I’ve put together a shopping list for herb gardener wanna-be’s that will put them on the road to tasty garden goodness. Take a look at A Beginner’s Herb Garden and get your trowel out of winter storage. If you happen to be at [...]

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