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Continue reading →: Sneak Peak at Our 2015 Garden Plans
We had our first planning meeting this morning, and I wanted to share with you a sneak peak of what will be coming this year. Our theme for the year is “simpler is better” for a number of reasons. We are still going to be trying some fun things, but…
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Continue reading →: Cooking Our Garden-Grown Beans
I know it has been awhile, but waaaay back in the summer we were growing some different beans in the garden. In the Italian garden we had some borlotto beans growing and in the Indian garden we had both chickpeas (garbanzo beans) and cowpeas (black-eyed peas) growing. We harvested them…
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Continue reading →: Two Fennel Recipes
One of the things we had in the Fall Italian Garden was bulbing fennel, which you may sometimes see in the grocery store labeled “Anise.” This is the fennel that was harvested before the cold weather set in a couple weeks ago. Most of it was pretty good sized. As…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay: Year in Review
I’ve been meaning to do the Year in Review post for the Friday PhotoEssay “whole garden” pictures for a couple weeks now. I guess it is good that I waited until now to get a true “after” shot from the cold. March 10th after a snow! April 3rd April 11th…
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Continue reading →: Preparing for the Sudden Onslaught of Winter
I feel like I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about the weather, but it really isn’t just idle conversation! The weather is extremely important to our success as gardeners. After one light freeze and lots of unseasonably warm weather, we are looking at more than a…