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Do you know the difference between chives, scallions and green onions? Chives are smaller, thinner and have a milder onion flavor. Green onions are the same as scallions. They have long, slender sides and a white bulb at the base. Green onions, onions, leeks, scallions, shallots and garlic are all members of the amaryllis family, […]
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Pam Peirce celebrates 30th anniversary of 'Golden Gate Gardening,' a bible for San Francisco gardeners sfchronicle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfchronicle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Is it ethical to plant a food garden in a drought? Yes Pam Peirce FacebookTwitterEmail Careful water conservation in your garden can produce a food harvest using less water than most crops produced by agriculture.Photos by Pam Peirce As California repeats its frequent pattern of periodic extreme drought, I think of a past drought during which a friend told me of an elderly San Francisco widower who stopped growing vegetables to help save water. He just stopped, left his yard fallow, bought his vegetables. As gardening to grow food had been his exercise and among his greatest joys. I have often wondered what happened next. Did he despair when he gave up his garden? Was his health good enough to allow him to garden when that drought let up? Should gardeners stop gardening when water restrictions are imposed?
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Crisp yacon tastes like jicama and you can grow it right now in the Bay Area FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Yacon, above, produces a crisp edible root, left. The knobby structures at the base of the stem are the rhizomes for propagation.Photos by Pam PeirceShow MoreShow Less 2of2 This container-grown yacon plant produced over 2 pounds of edible root. The knobby structures at the base of the stem are the rhizomes to use for propagation.Pam PeirceShow MoreShow Less In the United States, the crisp, sweet crunch of yacon roots is a secret known mainly to gardeners. When I began to grow it, over 20 years ago, it was even less known, though it has been a popular food in its native South America for centuries.