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 This article has me thinking about the garden for 2012. I know that I haven’t finished gardening yet this year…but there’s always time to plan for next year!
‘Gardener’ Gives ‘Heirloom Life’ To Forgotten Flora via ‘Gardener’ Gives ‘Heirloom Life’ To Forgotten Flora : NPR.
Excerpt: As a child growing up on Continue reading NPR Story: ‘Gardener’ Gives ‘Heirloom Life’ To Forgotten Flora Interesting article. Makes me think about my approach to composting yard and kitchen waste in my backyard. More yard, less kitchen! How That Food You Throw Out Is Linked To Global Warming : The Salt : NPR. Lettuce. After Christmas, I usually start gearing up for seed season in the house. I’m almost ready to start. However, a few weeks ago, I decided to inject our winter months with some nice delicate salad greens. We’re almost ready to start eating them. Might pepper some into our salad lettuce this week! Continue reading Winter Greens…Not the Ones You’d Expect! Autumn - Crops - Fall. It’s that time of year when I look at what I have left in the garden and try to find ways of using/preserving it so it’s not wasted. This afternoon, I went out into the garden and started pulling chives and mint. For chives, I like to clean them and then chop them up Continue reading Chives…Make you cry??? Gardening - Herbs - Pests - Rabbits - Raised Bed - Vegetables. Are the rabbits getting to you this year? The population in our area is crazy. For the past two years, we had hardly any foraging in our yards. This year, I can’t keep them out. After spending weeks and weeks working on seedlings indoors, I put my prized seedlings in the garden. As you Continue reading No More Wascally Wabbits!!! Given the fact that I have a lifetime supply (okay, a week’s supply) of chicken breasts in the house, I decided to make a series of chicken dishes this week. Tonight, I pulled again from the garden and grabbed up some basil. I marinated the chicken with olive oil, basil, garlic, salt and pepper. Continue reading Basil Chicken with Fig and Gorgonzola Salad Herbs - Lettuce - Onions - Peppers - Tomatoes. Shown below are the four raised beds I use for my annual vegetable garden. We’re on our fourth year using these beds. Some of the pieces are starting to fail. In 2011, I’ll likely have new beds to play with. The bed to the left of the vegetable garden is our main flower Continue reading 2010 Vegetable/Herb Garden – Late May Photos |
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