Happy Monday everyone! Slowly but surely we’re pulling out our over-wintered veggies, sowing seeds and transplanting a few tomatoes here and there. It’s not really time yet, but all the forecasts say our temps will stay above freezing past our average last frost date, so while I’m taking a bit of a risk I really do think it will be…
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Going to Seed
As the days continue to get longer and (abnormally) warmer, our over-wintered veggies have been bolting quite quickly this spring. In the interest of saving as many seeds as possible, I’ve left a few plants in the beds to continue their cycle and have been enjoying the show they put on! I love all their itty bitty buds and flowers…
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Harvest Monday
Happy Monday, everyone! There seems to be lots happening in the yard suddenly! The peas are peeking, the rhubarb is huge (well, huge to me…it’s never gotten this big this fast before), the fruit trees have all blossomed out and are beginning to get some leaves, our raised beds/hoop houses are full of greens and beets and carrots (although I…
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Harvest Monday
Happy Monday, everyone! We’re coming off an amazing weekend here (temperatures up close to 70 degrees) and according the forecast, we’re supposed to have a full week of 60 and 70 degree weather with lows above freezing! Crazy. I opened up the hoop houses yesterday and decided it was going to be warm enough to just leave them open overnight…
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What do you do when you find some yummy veggies and beans on sale? That’s right, you buy them, bring them home and can them. All in one day. Yeah…sometimes we’re a little crazy… On Sunday Tool Lady found some great deals while doing our bi-weekly grocery shopping so we wound up canning: 7 pints of asparagus 8 pints of…
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A couple of days ago, Tool Lady heard about Pickled Red Beet Eggs from a volunteer at work. He stated that they were one of his favorites, and since he’s been such an awesome volunteer, we decided we should try to make some for him. After several Google searches we found a recipe that looked like something we could try.…
