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    Harvest Monday!!!

    Happy Monday, everyone! This week brought more tomatoes (thank goodness), the last of (the second round of) spinach, a couple of carrots and a few more snap peas… …and the very first summer squash of the year!!! Yay for a little variety (even though I didn’t get pictures of everything)!!! This weeks totals:Snap Peas = 4 ouncesTomatoes = 14 ouncesCarrots…

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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 The first rain water harvest!!! Silly puppies AKA Mika &…

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    Harvest Monday!!!

    This was an exciting week!  We harvested our first, second, third, fourth and fifth tomatoes!  That’s right, a total of 5 tomatoes in one week!  Looks like all the patience has paid off and I couldn’t be happier!   These are Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and are super yummy.  The skins are a little thick, but that’s to be expected here.…

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    The First Tomato!!!

    We harvested our first tomato yesterday evening!!!  A Yellow Taxi weighing in at 2 whole ounces!!! It may be small, but it sure is beautiful!!!

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    The beginnings of a jalapeno! This bed is 4 feet wide & the fence behind it is 6 feet tall.  This means, officially, that our tomatoes are out of control. Buddha hanging out with the blue corn . How can something so green bring one so much happiness??? Bush snap pea Another bush snap pea (flower).  They’re just so pretty!…

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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 front yard Mint and a transplanted tomato…couldn’t tell you what…