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Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Do you ever have those weeks where time just zooms by and you're not quite sure where it went?  Yep, last week felt that way for me!  It was the last week of the summer camp I manage and I'm not really sure where each of the days went!  There were even evenings that I came home and didn't walk…
July 30, 2012
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!Things are, happily, continuing their slow roll out of the garden and into the kitchen! The Yellow Taxi Tomatoes are slowing their production and there are only a handful of them left on the plants.  It's OK though, because there are many other varieties that will follow them shortly.  I'm thinking the Romas will own the next wave.We…
July 2, 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
Tomato & Pepper Sprouts

Tomato & Pepper Sprouts

These little guys have popped up among a few of the seeds I've started in anticipation of warmer days...Yellow Taxi TomatoesGreen Bell PeppersSince I've gotten such an early start, right now I'm just putting a few seeds in pods every week or so (kind of as an experiment).  These guys will get thinned as soon as their first true leaves…
February 7, 2012
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