Organic Gardening mag is looking for your fantasy garden ideas....

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My work is blocking me from opening this link, but I just read it in my hardcopy of the mag last night. Scroll down the link to

Maria's Farm Country Kitchen

pg. 84

Share your garden fantasy here."

and send her your garden fantasy idea. Her examples weren't that outrageous so give it a shot. If she publishes your idea, you get $100 of something...I can't remmber. Maybe the link that I can't open tells you.

We certainly have a lot of great gardeners here...someone should be able to win something!

http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,,s1-26-27-1374,00.html

 
the "here" in the link takes you to her blog. but I can't find where to enter a comment. none of

the blog posts has anything to do with it, at least searching back several pages.

 
I'm home now with the actual magazine. Here are some of Maria's garden fantasies:

1. Making wonderful restaurant style pesto for her family. She's already making it with her garden basil, but she fantasizes about how restaurants keep theirs bright green.

2. Fantasies that veer toward the crazy: She is planting willow bushes in order to make baskets that can be composed when they get old.

3. Building a barn and getting a horse to reap the manure for her organic garden.

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Here's the gig:

What's Your Garden Fantasy?
Do you have a crazy garden desire? Share your fantasy with me and I'll post the best on my blog MariaFarmCountryKitchen.com

I'll pick a few to feature here, too. (Organic Gardening magazine)

If I choose yours, you'll get $100 and a goodie bag of fun organic stuff. While you are at my blog, check out the new Rodale.com, where every day we report on the latest news for healthy living on a healthy planet.

Maria Rodale is chairman of the board of Rodale Inc. and now editor-in-chief of Rodale.com

Send your garden fantasies and idea for better pesto to her at maria@rodale.com

 
Keeping Pesto Bright Green-Michael Chiarello had a show on this-blanch the basil

leaves briefly (drop in, scoop out) in boiling water

 
That's interesting. I've had pretty good luck with Shirley Corriher's suggestions. One is to add

lemon juice to the pasta boiling water, if you're serving it over pasta. Adding a little lemon juice to the basil before cutting it or to the finished pesto works, too. I've also been told that if you use a fairly acidic olive oil to make the pesto, it helps curtail browning. Problem is, I don't know which ones are the most acidic.

 
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