A Modern Gentleman's Kitchen Garden

A Modern Gentleman's Kitchen Garden An Urban Farm. A Backyard Orchard. A Practical Herbarium. A Modern Gentleman's Potager, with recipes.

Growing, cooking, and sharing ideas (and plants) in Chicago - Oak Park and beyond, with garden coaching and cooking classes! Leaving handprints on his shirt in dirt and in flour / and always ending the day in time for cocktail hour.

Greeted with the bizarre banana-popsicle fragrance of our Cycnoches “Green Swan” orchid, for a bit of a treat on a bleak...
01/17/2024

Greeted with the bizarre banana-popsicle fragrance of our Cycnoches “Green Swan” orchid, for a bit of a treat on a bleak morning.

A verdant check-in during the midwinter repose: heirloom lettuce from a simple hydroponics setup in the basement. Winter...
01/04/2024

A verdant check-in during the midwinter repose: heirloom lettuce from a simple hydroponics setup in the basement.
Winter salads to reward patience.

A late arrival, making one last appearance before a chilly nap - first bloom from Jaune Desprez since its joining the ga...
10/20/2023

A late arrival, making one last appearance before a chilly nap - first bloom from Jaune Desprez since its joining the garden this past spring!

While now is a poor time for any *major* rose pruning, a few of the long, whippy canes can get trimmed back to provide a...
10/15/2023

While now is a poor time for any *major* rose pruning, a few of the long, whippy canes can get trimmed back to provide a handful of rose cuttings to propagate your own stock!
The cool, rainy weather is perfect to keep them fresh until winter puts them to sleep; with any luck, next summer these will net a few new healthy rose-babies.

Garlic planters.
10/09/2023

Garlic planters.

Presenting: the two most important pieces of fruit in the history of everything.Alright, fine. Thats melodramatic. But s...
10/06/2023

Presenting: the two most important pieces of fruit in the history of everything.

Alright, fine. Thats melodramatic. But still, after six years of feeding, pruning, espalier-training, and cooing-to, my two heirloom apple and pear trees each produced a single flawless fruit.
Apple “Calville Blanc d’Hiver”
Pear “Duchesse de Bourgogne”

Small rewards.

Garden puttering on the first grey, blustery autumn day.Gathering hollow sticks from various plants (mostly allium canes...
10/06/2023

Garden puttering on the first grey, blustery autumn day.

Gathering hollow sticks from various plants (mostly allium canes and hollyhock stems), trimmed and bunched with waxed cord, hung in the orchard in the hopes of harboring overwintering bees, looking for a cozy tunnel.

Small projects.

Blackberry Lily bouquet.Equinox chic.
09/25/2023

Blackberry Lily bouquet.
Equinox chic.

Red.
09/23/2023

Red.

Early autumn layers:BoltoniaAnemoneSiberian Iris
09/23/2023

Early autumn layers:
Boltonia
Anemone
Siberian Iris

An equinox harvest, with a last-minute breakfast guest.
09/23/2023

An equinox harvest, with a last-minute breakfast guest.

I shall tempt you with figs, my love.
09/20/2023

I shall tempt you with figs, my love.

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