Gardening with Ciscoe: Find extra edibles in your vegetable garden

Don’t waste those extra edibles in your garden. (AP)

Many may be satisfied just snipping ripe pea pods from
their garden, but a Northwest author reminds fellow
gardeners there’s more out there to enjoy.

“I call them the ‘extra edibles,'” said Willi Galloway, in
an appearance on 97.3
KIRO FM’s Gardening with Ciscoe. “One of my favorite
things to eat from the gardens is pea shoots. The leaves
and the tendrils of the peas are so amazing.”

Galloway, a former editor for “Organic Garden Magazine,”
said many gardeners aren’t aware of all the extra edibles
they’re already growing.

“When you have a vegetable garden there’s all this amazing
food that you might not even know about in your garden,”
said Galloway, mentioning pea shoots and beet greens. “A
lot of times, that food just isn’t in grocery stores
because it doesn’t pack or ship well and it’s kind of
tender. It will look bad really fast, but as a gardener,
you don’t have to worry about that. You can harvest all
those delicious things.”

After reading Galloway’s book, Ciscoe said he was
impressed with how she covered growing to eating,
including how to harvest and how to prepare food with
recipe suggestions.

“I wanted to give people some ideas about using those
extra edibles because they are so delicious and just fun,”
said Galloway.

“One of the things that makes this book good is I can tell
you do it,” said Ciscoe. “It’s not just telling people how
to do it. You’re experimenting all the time in your own
garden.”

“Everything that’s in there I’ve grown,” said Galloway of
her new book, “Grow, Cook, Eat.”

More recipes and information to purchase her book can be
found at her blog DigginFood.

Gardening with Ciscoe can be heard on the
new 97.3 KIRO FM Weekends on Saturday at 10 a.m. Available
anytime ON DEMAND at MyNorthwest.com

By JAMIE GRISWOLD, MyNorthwest.com Editor