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Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden. Show all posts
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Garden 2016

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I decided that we will try a garden again this year, on a much smaller scale.  At this point I'm only sure that we will grow tomatoes, ...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Little late in the garden season

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I finally got outside and did some digging in the garden a couple weeks ago.  I ended up getting a storage tub and a bucket full of parsnips...
Friday, August 15, 2014

First attempt at dehydrating herbs

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 We dehydrated a bunch of fruit this week. We tried kiwi, peaches, several types of apples, pears, mango... Basically all of the fruit tha...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Happy Mother's Day

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This year for Mother's Day, I decided to make sure I got something good, so I made myself a raised flower bed. This was the bed aft...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Creative Garden Labels

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I needed something to label the areas of our garden but this year I needed something that would stand out more.  Last year we painted rocks...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Only minor progress

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We got out in the garden again today but didn't get too much done.  I re-tilled the entire garden, finished getting the deer and chicke...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Greenhouse by the house

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I bought a little greenhouse a few weeks ago and finally got it put together today.  It was raining outside, rain that would occasionally tu...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Spring is almost here

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I picked up the tiller from the shop yesterday and turned it on for just a minute when I got home. We had to run out to get gas this ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Sprouting up

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We are finally starting to see more seeds sprouting up. We still have quite a few that haven't started so I will probably use those cup...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Green!

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I've been starting to worry about my seeds growing.  I haven't seen any signs of them growing and I've had a hard time keeping ...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

The garden is started

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I'm a couple weeks late on my start time, but I finally got a bunch of seeds planted in the basement with two lights set up.  Tomatoes,...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Purple Potatoes?

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When I purchased potato starters last spring, I had seen a box for purple potatoes.  I'd never even heard of such a thing but decided t...

Sweet Potato Pie

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We've had frost the last two morning and the tops of all of the sweet potato plants had turned black.  I knew I had to harvest the sweet...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

The end of the garden season is near

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Unfortunately the garden has been neglected over the last few weeks with me going back to work and being overwhelmed with that, their activ...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Family Canning Event

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Yesterday we picked 95 pounds of tomatoes.   Yes.  95.  Ninety-Five.  NINETY... FIVE. It was a busy day so when we got home in ...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Amazingly pickled

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When I made the next batches of pickles last week, I was a bit nervous.  We hadn't tried the first batch of pickles since they needed t...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Canning peaches, berries, and pickles

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A couple days ago I went to a local farm and picked raspberries, blackberries, and peaches. The next day I got to work on some of...