Posted in Our Garden, Spring on May 27th, 2013
We have been in our home for 3 years now. When we moved in, the yard, gardens, and trees were a mess. A complete jungle. It just sickened me to find trees actually wrapped around other trees, growing in a thistle-infested chaos. We have worked really hard each spring and summer to try and […]
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Posted in Food, Our Garden, Spring, Uncategorized on May 16th, 2013
May greeted me with the usual end-of-school-year craziness and soccer mania that it usually does, but somehow it caught me off guard. I haven’t had much time to write. We have managed to make it to the Sagamore West Farmers Market for the last 3 Wednesdays, and I can say I officially have my garden […]
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Posted in Diet/Nutrition, Our Garden on Aug 7th, 2012
Ok, I admit it. My garden makes me happy. It’s little and I’m a novice but it makes me happy! We tried onions this year, and I thought I would show you how they turned out. I’m glad they made it through this heat and drought. Some of my other veggies aren’t fairing all that […]
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Posted in Our Garden on Nov 2nd, 2011
This year we made our first real attempt at a garden. It was extremely rewarding and fun, but the last couple of months the crop didn’t looked so great. We were spoiled by the initial months of no bugs! I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do with the last crop of my tomatoes since […]
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Posted in Our Garden on Aug 12th, 2011
About two weeks ago my 7-year-old proudly picked our first “big beef” tomato off the vine. It was quite an honor. My 5 kiddos have been watching our garden consistently since beginning of May when we planted the first seedlings. I hear at least twice a day, “I’m going out to check the garden, Mom!” […]
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