Category: Kitchen Gardening
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Cardoons: An Edible Ornamental
Joe, the Cardoon, and I Nearly 10 years ago I grew two lovely cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) plants here at the house. An easy plant to grow from seed, I jokingly referred to it them as ‘Cardoonicus Maximus’ due to their imposing stature. Though clearly not at all the proper technical name for the plant, it stuck. If…
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Sicily: Part Two (Palermo and some of Ancient Sicily)
The chronology of our Sicily trip is a bit out of order in these two posts but I’m trying to remain focused on a few themes related to gardening and the green spirit. “Buon divertimento!” Cucuzza squash in the Mercato di Capo in Palermo. We’d planned to drive into Palermo twice during our time in…