Plants & Gardens Blog

In Eastern cuisine, daylilies are a prized staple. Here, they're enjoyed mostly for their rampant beauty along roadsides.Try them in this tasty recipe! Read › Eat Local: Daylily Fritters

Go beyond pansies and nasturtiums, and you'll find edible flowers in an array of colors, flavors, and textures. Read › Eat Local: Add Gorgeous Edible Flowers to This Salad or Another Favorite Recipe

Ramps are here! Take full advantage of their short, sweet season with this delicious pesto recipe. It's especially good with other seasonal ingredients like morels and fiddleheads. Read › Eat Local: Spring Pasta with Ramp and Parsley Pesto

Microgreens are nutritious, flavorful, and easy to grow. Learn how to grow them and use them in a delicious buttermilk beet salad. Read › Eat Local: Grow Microgreens in Your Windowsill and Use Them in this Salad

The Herb Garden is in its late-summer glory now. Enjoy the photos, but be sure to visit to see the rest of the season unfold! Read › Look What’s Growing in the Herb Garden

Homemade sauerkraut is easy to make and surprisingly delicious. Pair this tasty variation with sausage or roast pork, or add it to potato salad, chicken salad, or stuffing. Read › Recipe: Apple-Fennel Sauerkraut

An incredible array of pumpkins in all shapes, sizes, colors, and textures is growing in BBG's Herb Garden this month. Some hardly look like pumpkins at all! Read › Great Pumpkin: Look What’s in the Herb Garden

What happens to all of the beautiful produce grown in BBG's Herb Garden? Read › Herb Garden Harvest

This simple French vegetable stew is delicious with crumbled goat cheese on pasta, alongside roasted chicken, or accompanying a fresh baguette. Read › Recipe: Easy Summer Ratatouille

What’s blue, sweet, healthy, and native to Brooklyn? Highbush blueberries! Vaccinium corymbosum is beautiful and bears delicious fruit bursting with nutrients. Read › Making Brooklyn Blue