Category: Hardy Vegetables

The Glory of Greens
By Categories: Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Leafy Greens, Locally Grown, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Seasonal, Summer Produce

Greens deserve a lot more credit in our dietary lineup than they often receive. Not only do they go swimmingly with many summer meals, but they are some the most nutrition-savvy add-ons we can join into our munching minutes. With a European origin, Swiss Chard is in the family of beets. Red, green, and the…

Natural Fertilizers at Home: Feed Those Tomato Plants
By Categories: Featured, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs, Hardy Vegetables, Locally Grown, Seasonal, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

With so many chemical fertilizers on the market today, it’s nice to know that there are plenty of natural versions of fertilizers and soil amendment possibilities right at home when you’re ready to feed the tomato plants you’ve purchased from Wolff’s Apple House. Eggshells Save your eggshells after breakfast or baking. Eggshells are rich in…

Grafted Tomatoes: Delicate Heirlooms Made Hardy
By Categories: Featured, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs, Hardy Vegetables, Tomatoes

By Ashley Wolff A tomato connoisseur knows that heirloom tomatoes are usually the tastiest, juiciest and most oh-so-delicious ‘maters on the block.  But there is a reason that we seldom see abundant displays of these tasty gems in stores: they are often harder to grow than hybrids and have a shorter shelf-life. They were grown…

CANDY FOR BREAKFAST?
By Categories: Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Locally Grown, Recipes, Winter Squash Tags: ,

For weeks Steve Rosazza has been delivering some very delicious acorn squash. This variety, along with Butternut, Spaghetti, and Festival, are just some of the winter squash available locally at Wolff’s. Years ago, while working on a small farm in Baltimore, I had the opportunity to cook lots of squash. A heavy bumper crop made…

Gardening 101: Planning, Preparing & Planting
By Categories: Featured, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs, Hardy Vegetables

When you walk into Wolff’s this time of year, a sea of vibrantly colored flowers greets you. Some of these plants are ready to go in the ground, like Pansies and cold-tolerant annuals like Alyssum, Diascia, Dusty Miller, Lobelia, Nemesia and Snapdragons. Other early season perennials are also waiting for their turn in the dirt,…