Veggie soup

I love the cosmic purple carrots! The unexpected color is fun!

We like the rainbow carrots, red, orange, purple etc. not sure of their varieties.

Nantes, or if we can get the seeds, Scarlet Nantes.

We grow any and all carrots. My grandbabies love to plant the tiny seeds, watch the fernlike leaves mature, but most of all the little girls absolutely love to pull them up. Even if they are so skinny they’re hardly a mouth full. But our carrots are sweet and my girls claim that every one is the best carrot ever!!!

I don’t grow carrots, but I want to. My favorite kind of carrot is any kind of carrot. I love carrot salad and carrot souffle.

A few years ago I grew carrots and they tasted earthy. i’d love to try another variety since I love carrots raw and use them to cook with often.
Any advice?

Nantes

I have not planted carrots, but I have fond memories of a very robust garden my dad used to plant. Along with memories of having to wake up way before I was ready to help tend to it. 🙂 I am attempting to carry on this tradition with my own family.

Baby carrots were grown for healthy snacks for our yellow Lab, Manny. He loved them and relished every chew. They cleaned his teeth, gave him a little sweetness and he crunched away

A few years back I grew Red Dragon – absolutely fabulous. It is on the list to go in the garden this year

I likr rainbow carrots. So much color to everything.

So for I don’t have a ‘favorite’ carrot to grow. I have tried a few different varieties over the past few summers, but they all seem to have a metallic taste to them. Is it the carrots, or am I doing something to cause this?

I haven’t grown any yet. This will be my first year! I do love watching the cut tops of the carrots resprout! The soft, feathery greens make me feel happy and hopeful! I can’t wait to experience pulling an entire carrot from the ground and tasting it!!

I haven’t grown carrots yet – but as my clay soil continues to become better and suitable for carrots I hope to try this spring.

I haven’t had much success growing carrots. Would love to learn what I’m doing wrong!

Hi thank you for your fun educational encouraging drawing!!
I’d have to say my favorite would be danvers half long..from homesteading in west Virginia and storing them in a root cellar until the next spring, growing them in longer light days in Quebec where they became very large, to Ohio clay soils..I’d have to say danvers..saving seed was from these was my maiden voyage in saving seed!!….i owe them alot..they taught me about the earth..gardening…bunnies..alot of things..

I recently moved from Dallas to the mountains of NC and have not grown a garden yet. I hope to this year. My goats love carrots and I love to garden.

growing Danvers and Tendersweet

Scarlet Nantes in the raised bed!

Last year I grew basic Earl May short length carrots in a raised bed. They were fairly good – but I would have liked to grow more than I did.

I have always had good luck with Danvers Half Long carrots. One year I did a circle garden for the fun of it and it was the best garden ever. I got teased a lot but had a lot of fun with it and showing those skeptics how great it was.

Ive grown the Atlas( parisian type) and Caracas from Johnny’s

Well, to be quit honest I haven’t grown any. I’ve tried to grow some vegetables in a little side garden beside my house but it doesn’t get adequate sun. However, we just bought 10 acres of land and I have a HUGE area where I can grow all I could possibly dream of. It’s already plowed and ready to plant. I can’t wait!!! My husband got this magazine for me and I love it. What little growing I have had success with is in pots around my house or in the greenhouse. So I am excited for the new adventures of growing straight from the earth.

My five kiddos and I LOVE the rainbow carrots we plant every year!

I always plant a big garden with the help of a neighbor and my husband. I enjoy the “Scarlet Nantes” carrot–so sweet. Every year I try a new variety of something, as well as the tried and true favorites–Contender green beans are lovely, and I stick with Yukon Gold potatoes for summer eating.

I love the bulb flowers that date to bloom this time of year. So give me crocuses, daffodils, narcissus, and maybe for fun through in some prim roses even though they’re not from bulbs.

I love most flowers, but the peony would be my all time favorite, the ones with the great fragrance. Would love to add your Iris to my garden too!

I love peach colored roses! Right now I have some yellow iris. I think the purple would look great with them.

Anything with PINKS that gives hope to spring!

Tulips or any flower! I love decorating for Valentine’s Day because it’s like a little bit of “spring” in winter.

Roses of every color.

Stargazer Lilies!

Daisies are the best anytime!

My favorite flower would be a Tiger Lily. They are near and dear to my heart. So they are perfect for Valentines Day.

My favorite Valentine Flowers are tulips and daffodils because they say spring is just around the corner!

This year it was bright yellow daisies and miniature purple irises!

I have always loved carnations for their sweet, somewhat spicy fragrance!!

My favorite bouquet would be lily of the valley and muscari because I can’t pick one over the other. The smell is intoxicating and I love their tiny bells!

I’m not sure I have a favorite, I love anything that blooms.

I love irises, but my favorite flower is calla lily. I love all the colors and don’t mind that the colored ones are tiny!

The first English hyacinth in the spring

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I really enjoy house and garden flowers. Really appreciate the beauty of African violets and orchids. My grandma had African violets always blooming in her house. My mother also raised African violets. I have been fortunate to be able to raise violets even though my 2 sisters are challenged. They grow other house plants but guess I got the violet growing gene. Have expanded to orchids as roommates for the violets. I do have an expanded Iris bed as well. Would love to add more iris.

I love all flowers, but for valentine’s day, I would have to say a red rose.

I love all flowers, so any received for Valentine’s Day are my favorite!!

For Valentines’ it would be pink or red roses. Very romantic.

I loved to cut forsythia to force by spring. The yellow flowers would lift the spirit.
Love your magazine.

My favorite flowers are whatever my husband gives me because it is filled with his love.

Multicolored daisies

Thank you for your invitation to participate in this ..well I’d have to say that any flower that is deep red…in any form would be my favorite Valentine’s flower….dried in the form of petals for potpourri..or ground into a fragrant rose body powder.. fresh in a vase on a table or bedside..or maybe a heart shaped wreath..

I just moved to idaho… at my husband’s parents ranch..it just so happens that his mom’s name is Iris..and I’d like to create an honor garden for Iris..so these rhizomes would help me begin to root here in the earth and honor my husband’s mother and father..

Cyclamen!

Potato Soup

Tortilla soup!

Oh, my goodness! I’m not sure I have a ‘favorite’ soup. I like all kinds of soups….let me think. My homemade chicken noodle or my homemade potato soup.
As far as recipes go, I just make it up as I go along. I don’t have a recipe. Sorry.

New England clam chowder!

Chicken noodle

I love homemade soups and almost daily have it with my meal. My favorite is a cabbage soup with lots of veggies.

My favorite homemade soup is vegetable beef. I can the soup starter every year using fresh tomatoes, corn, okra, onion and carrots. At mealtime, I saute ground beef, more onion, potatoes, add the canned starter with home- canned tomatoes. I use bought early June peas and beef stock to finish. It’s quite yummy. I freeze any leftovers or share with family and friends..

My Mom’s potato soup nothing like today’s version with all that cheese.

Tortilla soup… http://homeschoolontherange.blogspot.com/2019/02/six-basic-freezer-cooking-recipes.html

All time fave soup would be Split Pea!! Always on the menu after holidays that include Ham – Christmas and Easter.

Butternut or crookneck squash soup. I keep it extremely simple: boil till tender, drain and place in a blender, add salt/pepper and a heaping tablespoon or so of butter and mayo. Our garden squash has been the best and so flavorful that it needs little additives to be yummy!

I always make burgoo for the Kentucky Derby and we have a lot to freeze this would be so handy

Beef barley with whatever veggies I have. Cabbage and diced tomatoes a must.

Any kind of bean soup.

Our household favorite soup is Zuppa Toscana. We sub a few ingredients to make it gluten, dairy and corn free for my daughter and I.

My favorite soup is potato and sausage soup. I made this creation when I had extra canned potatoes from our garden and leftover party sausages from the Super Bowl! I also added fresh chopped parsley from my herb garden along with onion and garlic. It turned out fabulous!

Chicken corn soup

It may be boring, but I find so much comfort in a bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup.

Cheesy broccoli

Hamburger soup. Something my mother-law gave me. The basics are hamburger and cabbage and pretty much anything else you feel like putting in it.

Split Pea and Ham Soup
Boil ham bone for an hour or so, until meat comes off easily, stirring every so often. You can simmer it longer, but if you do and water evaporates, add more water, so when you are done you have a gallon or so of stock. I do this on the wood burning stove. Take off stove and let cool enough to handle, or wear rubber gloves if you can’t wait that long. Pull bits of ham off bone. (The marrow can go in here, also.)Put in container in the fridge. Strain the juice into a gallon pail. Put in the fridge overnight and skim off the fat the next day. This is your soup stock. Put it back on the stove and while it’s heating, put in a bay leaf, cut up carrots, celery and onion and put in – a cup or two of each. Put split peas in – half of a one pound bag, or a cup. Simmer for a half an hour, or an hour, stirring every so often, until peas are soft. Add in the meat pieces that you took from the bone. Let the whole thing simmer a little longer, 15 or 20 minutes. If the soup is too salty, add some bite sized potato pieces, about a couple cups. Or if you just like potatoes in it like I do, add them anyway. Now your soup is ready to eat. A slice of bread buttered with garlic butter and shredded cheese sprinkled on it, then heated in the oven until the cheeese melts is real good with this. And this can all be done in the wood burning kitchen range. A good skill to know if the power goes out for a while, which doesn’t happen often. When the soup has cooled some put the kettle in the fridge to cool. A big pot will last for many meals, but if you want to freeze some, scoop some into a ziplock bag after it cools. It doesn’t look pretty after it cools, but it will look good again when it is warmed up. And it always tastes good!

I wish i made better soup because I really like about every kind….the best one i have ever made was the chicken noodle soup….. a recipe from your magazine!!!

I like many different soups, mainly vegetable versions. I have a vegetable base of usually corn, okra, onions, tomatoes. Then add any vegetables available: peas, carrots, garlic, beans, potatoes, black-eyed peas, any vegetable that would be great in a soup. Sometimes will add meat if want to or will add quinoa. I have canned at least 70 quarts of soup in a few days, before. I can and freeze a lot. We try to grow as much of what we eat as we can.

Spanish gazpacho

Tomato basil.

Amelia Mae Kirby

I just subscribed! I’m going to name our future milk cow Lorie Darlin’ thank you for such a great magazine, cookbooks, and website!

I’ve heard of naming cows after favorite aunts or other women in the family. I love this so my cow will be named Daisy for my favorite aunt when I was a girl. She was under 5 ft tall and loved sewing and crafts. Thank you!

Mabel Belle :). I love your magazine, my 8 year old daughter and I love to do the crafts together.