Getting Your Garden Ready for Soul Food

It’s that time of the year again, when I get an itch to work in my garden. I love to digging around in the cool pliable dirt at this time of the year. Some maybe wondering, what does a guy who writes about the history of soul food plant in his own garden? First let me say that the essence of soul food cookery is hooking up a great dish with what you have on hand that’s inexpensive or free. So what I do is look for great bargains on heirloom herbs and vegetable plants as well as organic plants seeds. A must in my garden are herbs that I use in cooking. I love sending the children to the garden to pick some fresh pepper, bay leaf, sage, thyme, or rosemary and they love doing it. As seasoning, I also make use of several fresh vegetables, including chopped scallions and/or onions and garlic. Here are a two great links: one to an historic garden in the Hudson Valley that enslaved African use to work in Philipsburg Manor. The website is loaded with interesting information for a serious gardener or novice. The second is a link to a how to get your garden ready link. Tomorrow will talk about vegetables



Historic Afro-Dutch garden link: http://www.hudsonvalley.org/content/view/74/139/

Great how to get your garden ready link: http://ezpeazy.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-does-your-garden-grow-5-easy-steps.html