I occasionally follow a garden blogger who has come up with a pretty creative way of unloading extra zucchini by combining it with the old juvenile game of ding-dong-ditch. Simply sneak up to the neighbor’s front door, drop off a few zucchini, ring the door bell, and take off. Tempting… very tempting. Traditionally, there’s three […]

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After getting Peanut back to sleep after her green bean shake this morning I went out to the garden to pick the last of the strawberries – almost a gallon of berries about the size of my thumb. Nothing impressive to look at, but they’ll taste great this winter. (I guess it’s a sign of […]

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Have I mentioned we’ve been picking strawberries? It started out slow a couple weeks ago – a berry here or there. Then on the 15th we picked about a gallon of ripe berries and continued to pick at least a gallon every other day… until last Saturday. The little extra heat with the rain we […]

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With all the rain, finding time to work in the garden has been challenging. At this point, we’re to the point that almost everything is planted – at least for the first round. I still have room for eight or twelve more rows of something. Here’s a quick list of what’s growing this year: Beets […]

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OK… let’s see… the DW and I have slightly disappeared the last couple weeks. Just to dispel any rumors, we’re still here. We haven’t joined on as roadies for Sesame Street Live or hooked up with a traveling circus as the resident clown family in training… though the later might by fun for a few […]

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Not much has been said about the garden yet this year other than way back in February when all the seeds were ordered. A lot has happened since than… Back in March, the tomatoes, eggplant, and green peppers were started in the kitchen window. We hadn’t started seeds indoors before, so we went with the […]

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After another night of rain, we’re close to eight inches since the first of April. I think the garden and lawn have sucked up just about every drop, though we’re all starting to get a little anxious for the day we can actually get outside and do something. The mail order blueberries and raspberries are […]

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It seems we’ve gone from one extreme to the other with the weather from last year to this year. Last year this time, I had the garden tilled and some of the potatoes and onions planted already. Not quit on the same pace this year. Here’s what the garden looked like this morning… With how […]

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Needless to say, I’m a little behind on my national news the last few months. But after I noticed the price of lettuce at the grocery store last week I found this article… CNBC – Your Salad Will Cost More Apparently a cold stretch in California and Arizona damaged lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, and other winter […]

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Maybe I was bit by the “spring-bug” or the fact that I hate standing in the store staring at a giant garden seed display while trying to find the one variety I want and they don’t have. Either way, I broke down and ordered most of the seeds we’ll need for the garden online this […]

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