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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday, everyone! This week featured tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes (it’s a good thing we like ’em), a few potatoes and carrots (it’s a good thing we like those, too) and a tiny bit of the first fall lettuce!!! As tomatoes have been ripening in the garage, we’ve been…

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    The Great Potato Harvest of 2011

    On the last weekend in April we planted 2.5 pounds of German Butterballs in some recycled kiddie pools and a few ounces of red potatoes (that were sprouting in the pantry) in a big bucket. After many months of waiting, drought, hail storms and lots of patience, the time finally came to…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    So many tomatoes still on the vine!!!  Yellows and greens and … …gorgeous reds! The ladies do love their Scratch! Lemon cuke, Brandywines and Pole Beans Love really is all around… This is the only one of it’s kind in our yard… …but the Morning Glories have officially taken over…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    Summer and Winter Squash, making friends. The potatoes have almost completely recovered after their battering by the hail a week ago!  Thank goodness! The tiniest sunflower EVER… …See how tiny it is in comparison to the morning glory??? I love the variety our chickens give us in the size, shape…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    The sweet corn in the back yard seems to be confused…it’s not even 3 feet tall, but it’s starting to try to produce corn…weird! The German Butterball Potatoes  are getting ready to flower! The Butternut Squash is getting some color texture! Bush Beans, Pole Beans and Snap Peas Mystery tomatoes…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    The first pie pumpkin The first (ever) acorn squash I love the texture in this bed…Sunflowers, tomatoes and acorn squash Ashes made her way outside, Bo was not happy about it… Baby tomatoes…not suffering from butt rot The first lemon cucumber…the previous few mysteriously disappeared… The first bush snap pea…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    Hilled up potatoes! A corner of our back yard Fantastic sunset shot from the back yard Chickens like beets 🙂 The Butternut Squash is starting to run! Snap Peas and beans starting the long climb! Beans make for a pretty cover crop Spinach (second planting) under a tree in the…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    Massive, over-wintered spinach (in one of the now uncovered wagons) The massive spinach is now starting to go to seed…finally! Baby spinach in a pot on the front porch to replace the massive spinach once I pull it all out 🙂 Here we have lettuce and arugula which was planted…