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Remembering my first garden 2008-06-05 17:08:43 My first house had a little patch of dirt by the deck out back where I attempted, almost a year after moving in, to start a garden. I had big plans. First I tried to start seedlings in the sunny windowed atrium of that funny house, where I promptly forgot to water them and they [...]
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Baby oh baby 2008-06-13 23:27:37 Thought I would post while I still can … I am now 38 weeks (as of tomorow) pregnant - and my ability to bend has vanished. My beets are almost ready, and there has been consistent cold weather here in Utah (where are you summer??) which means that my spring plants are still doing good. [...]
Paradise Rose & Heirloom Tomatoes 2008-06-17 22:09:55 This is my Paradise
Floribunda Rose - planted last month. After a long hiatus it is finally blooming again.
I noticed several aphids on the little rose buds a few weeks ago and have been removing them by hand - today I ordered some ladybugs from amazon - trying to save myself some effort. I don’t [...]
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Baby is here!!!! 2008-07-02 01:44:48 My 8 lb 6 oz 18 inch long baby girl was born on Saturday (her due date!) after about 10 hours of labor. I had her natural which was painful but only the last hour or so. So excited she is finally here!!! Will post pics when I get them on my computer.
When we got [...]
Overrun by pumpkins and sunflowers 2008-07-17 22:42:09 My backyard is full of sunflowers - they are everywhere. Little brown and orange ones, huge yellow ones. Above is one about to burst into bloom. They are gorgeous huge vibrant things growing like weeds everywhere attracting bees like no other and I love ‘em - though not as much as hubby does, who planted [...]
Garden maintenance 2008-07-13 21:48:24 The heat of the summer is fully here - and although some of my sfg squares are empty most are full. The strawberries that didn’t produce all June are finally fruiting - and the June-bearers are done. The beets seem to be doing good but I am having a hard time telling them apart from [...]
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Mel’s Tomato Tower 2008-07-09 23:42:33 This is a picture of Mel’s TomatoTower
- set up a few days before I had my baby. So far doing great - behind it is growing massive sunflowers.
Here is a picture of hubby’s tomato - growing in his upside down tomato planter.
Life is slowly returning to semi-normal here - although my days and [...]
Future plans 2008-08-05 21:46:44 I told my sister in-law today that next year I want a whole 4×4 full of strawberries, and another full of tomatoes. Maybe at least half of one for beets. And the one I have now? Squash, peppers, and other climbers. It’s times like this I start wishing I lived in Florida or some other [...]
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Tomato Love 2008-07-27 22:37:15 I have been wanting to post about my tomatoes all week - I only got one bite of the above tomato, which Hubby gobbled the rest up. YUM!!
Here are my heirlooms, slowly coming along. I think this is the Cherokee purple. I really want to try some of that red plastic mulch stuff which may [...]
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Chickens! 2008-08-21 22:21:28 2 nights ago we found a local ad for chickens - and took the plunge! The above not so good pic is of the 6 hens I bought from a local lady downsizing her flock - I also had 2 roosters (conditional to get the nicer hens) but had to give ‘em away for free [...]
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Green Tomatoes 2008-08-18 16:34:29 Today my 2 year old picked a whopping 3 tomatoes that were still green. We tried explaining that we don’t pick the “baby tomatoes” - they don’t taste good. When I caught her she got a cute mischievous look on her face and teasingly reached for an almost ripe one - then ran away giggling. [...]
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Fall Planting 2008-08-14 22:50:42 Now that the summer heat is starting to taper off a bit I’ve started thinking of fall planting. All the nursery stock around here is mostly gone so I’ve started thinking about starting seedlings again. I’ve not had much success in this area and figure it’s because I’ve been looking for the perfect “growing kit” [...]
Risotto with Garden Tomatoes 2008-08-11 22:00:47 One of my favorite things to do with homegrown tomatoes is add it to a box of risotto mix. Risotto
is a yummy, though sometimes a little bland, Italian rice dish - tomatoes (especially garden ones with actual taste) gives it a very tasty flavor. The picture up above shows an Italian herb Risotto with [...]
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Busy bees one too many 2008-09-04 14:06:39 As much as I love having bees flourishing in my garden, they are starting to wear out their welcome. With the garden right by the back door and having to leave the door open to be able to watch my 2 year old DD1, the bees are becoming a nuisance. Two flew in today in [...]
Visiting the Farmer’s Market 2008-08-27 22:40:23 I visited the Farmer’s Market
last night and bought a ton of supersweet cherry tomatoes, crookneck squash, tiny zucchini, fresh corn, and super yummy peaches. Tonight I made fritters cooked in olive oil from the tomatoes and zucchini and from store bought fresh dill (ouch was it expensive but worth it!) and mint from my [...]
Beet Harvest and the Chicken Wynn 2008-08-24 22:37:50 I harvested these beets last night and washed them while watching “Nim’s Island.” It’s a cute movie though it lost my attention 3/4 of the way through. These beets turned out alot better than my last harvest - I think because of the ladybugs doing bad bug control. Only some of the leaves had been [...]
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Saving the Environment - small & large steps 2008-09-30 12:25:44 At our last family party we started talking about recycling. My bro-in-law said it uses more energy to recycle than to throw stuff out. Something about a carbon footprint? OK, so I’m not as well versed in all this stuff as alot of people - but I still think recycling is a step in the [...]
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Finally! A second to blog!! 2008-09-21 13:57:55 I started working at home a few weeks ago and am finally learning how to juggle it with everything else I have to do. So there is finally a second or two to blog about my garden!
Half the “bees” in my backyard swarming around the door are yellow jackets. Everyone knows I grew up in [...]
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Eggs!!! 2008-10-20 12:01:08 I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that the hens hadn’t laid eggs yet, and probably wouldn’t through the winter - when I heard a strange noise coming from their coop. We had stopped checking every day - anyways I looked in their little laying boxes - 11 perfect medium brown eggs!!! I [...]
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