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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
It’s been a pretty pleasant week in the garden. Some nice rain, warm-but-mild temperatures, plants growing like crazy. Have you looked at the forecast for next week yet? I think summer is planning to arrive over the weekend. As with last week, the changes aren’t as visible on a whole…
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Continue reading →: Birthday Brownies!
I celebrated a birthday yesterday, ending in “O” So in honor of this special day, I am posting a delicious brownie recipe. You can choose to make it either in the original, moderate or low fat versions. All are delicious! If you do not have apple sauce consider substituting pumpkin…
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Continue reading →: Training & Pruning Tomatoes for Cattle Panels
We are growing 2 cherry/grape tomatoes on our cattle panel trellis that is arching over the path between beds this summer. Because of the location and the fact that both tomatoes are going to be “sharing” the trellis with another vegetable (one pole bean and one cucumber), they are going…
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Continue reading →: First Garlic Harvest
We harvested our first garlic this morning! The ‘Maiskij’ variety reached the point of having 5 dead leaves, so we dug it to begin the drying process. The bulbs are big and beautiful! The roots were also very deep in the soil. We could definitely see the difference between the…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
How about all that rain this week? I’ll be honest that excessive rain comes with its own problems in the garden, but I can’t complain too much yet. If we’re getting 3 inches of rain a week all summer…well…there are limits. That should help with the Cheney Reservoir though. We…