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Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!As the veggies are really starting to roll in, I keep finding myself thinking about how amazing it is to actually be able to grow our own food!  Despite the sunburns and torn up hands, the long waiting periods and ridiculous weeds, every single harvest is a gift.  Even if I only pull a single tomato out of…
July 23, 2012
Seed Saving

Seed Saving

In my continued attempt to save seeds, I am grateful that the warm (hot) weather has helped the overwintered veggies complete their cycle as well provided the perfect environment for the peppers and tomatoes to ripen.  Enter a few of my favorite little promise keepers (as in, there's so much promise kept with each tiny little seed)!Happy Hot Peppers...Beets (Early)...Kale…
July 18, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!!!The past week was an incredibly busy and quite exhausting one...but I don't think I really realized how crazy it was until I looked back on my harvest photos and found...one.  Ah well, such is life sometimes!The good news is, we harvested our first bush beans and zucchini of the season, the cherry tomatoes are starting to trickle…
July 16, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!Thankfully, the past week finally brought us some much needed rain!  Not only has it helped to calm our spirits a bit, but the garden has loved the respite form the heat as well as the moisture from the skies.  Rain water must have some magic in it because it affects our veggies unlike any water we get…
July 9, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!This week brought a mixture of harvests, including the first jalapeno and the first Happy Hot Peppers!  Dave, I'm hoping you might have some insight/shared curiosity about why ours went straight from green to red instead of the pretty orange you've gotten in the past.  Very interesting...I guess we'll wait and see what happens with the other three experimental Happy…
June 25, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!Well, the past week has been full of tomatoes! 18 to be exact!  17 of those were Yellow Taxis and 1 was a Cherokee Purple...an itty bitty Cherokee Purple.  While it was quite a pain to carry all those tomato starts in and out of the house for a couple of weeks in April and May, getting a…
June 18, 2012