Garden Mystery

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Garden Happiness & Harvest Monday

Garden Happiness & Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!I am incredibly happy to report that this week has brought us a variety of small and delicious harvests!  But first, let's look at how a few things are growing...The cucumbers and bush beans are doing very well!  The cukes aren't yet reaching for their support, but they do all have their true leaves.The tomatillos are growing in…
June 10, 2013
Rose Mystery

Rose Mystery

Alright, we have a mystery and I'm hoping you can help me with it!When we first moved into our home six years ago, we planted two rose bushes under one of our ground level windows.  They were small but grew well over the next few years.  They didn't, however, give us the amazing blooms we had hoped for (or the…
June 10, 2013
Mystery Melon

Mystery Melon

Last year, as part of our CSA share, we received a delicious Mystery Melon.  First, it looked like a Cantaloupe on the outside, but the flesh inside was green.  Second, the taste fell somewhere between Honey Dew and Cantaloupe.  Very interesting and incredibly delicious.So I saved some seeds.Fast forward to this June.  In one of my front yard beds there…
September 28, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!Something very exciting happened this week!  We harvested our first three tomatoes!!!  Yep, you read that right...two Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and one cherry tomato!  Oh man!  I guess that starting those seeds under the grow lights in February really paid off :-)We also harvested our first dill, the last of the over-wintered carrots, and some more kale, peas,…
June 11, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!!!We didn't harvest a single thing all week until last night when I harvested some greens and carrots for lunch today (adding a couple boiled eggs makes an almost perfect salad)!I spent a lot of time last weekend cleaning, blanching and freezing all the greens we harvested last week.  I always forget how a huge harvest cooks down…
April 30, 2012
Garden Mystery – Tomatoes & Their See Through Skin

Garden Mystery – Tomatoes & Their See Through Skin

Remember this tomato?  As it grew on the vine, it (and it's sister) did this weird thing with it's skin.  They both had this funny patch of almost translucent skin!  Well, I just let them grow to see what would happen and when they were ready, I brought them inside...Cut them open...And discovered that they are perfectly fine!  Some of…
August 24, 2011
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