3 hours ago
by MsDebbieP |
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What a beautiful day outside today – no humidity factor, not too hot and relatively no mosquitoes!
I went outside to do one little thing and ended up taking a walkabout around the front yard. While I was out there I pulled bindweed (argh) from my raised bed—can you believe it? It found its way into my new strawberry bed.
I also had to cover up plant roots after the chickens from next door dug out some bugs, I guess. There are now 11 chickens out and about. Earlier today ther...
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6 hours ago
by MsDebbieP |
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Sept 3/10
...and today I made cabbage rolls for the freezer.
I’ve never done this before but it was my plan, last winter, when I selected the seeds for my garden.
With the tomato canning all done, the next and last preserving would be the cabbage. Surprisingly, lean ground beef came on special today so while I was in town I picked up a “family pack”. (3 lb?)
I like the savoy cabbage for my cabbage rolls because it rolls up so much easier than the “regular&#...
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1 day ago
by MsDebbieP |
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Sept.2/10
Am I finally reaching the end of my tomatoes?
I picked the last of the red ones today .. and I’m not sure if the green ones will ripen before the plants all die off. They are looking pretty sad.
I did up another 8 pints of tomato sauce along with 6 pints of tomato juice (well, it’s really “tomato liquid” since I’ve taken as much pulp out of it as I possibly can. I read that this makes great marinade for fish. I added some lime juice to it to ra...
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1 day ago
by Bon |
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I was given a beautiful White Chiffon Rose of Sharon for my big 60th B’day last week.Also I acquired two beautiful purple Rose of Sharon shoots from a friends garden.I am not going to plant them until next spring though because I don’t want to lose them over the winter.Also I got a nice size shoot from a huge pink perennial Hibiscus that I have in water right now growing the roots bigger.
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2 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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Sept.1/10
Yesterday, my daughter and I teamed up and spent half of a day canning tomatoes. We made a big batch of salsa, dividing it into two – half with hot peppers and half without. We have a total of 14 pints.
We also had some unused tomatoes which we canned (6 pints of stewed tomatoes) and the juice created by squeezing out the seeds was turned into 6 pints of tomato juice.
The WeatherIt seems that I only like to can on the hottest days of the summer. Some day when I’...
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5 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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... as we make our way through our SPICES of Life, we come to “e” – emotional development.
As we garden, I am sure that most of us experience a wide variety of emotions, from joy, to frustration, and even anger at times (argh those rabbits). There is a soothing element to gardening, providing a wonderful stress relief in our busy lives.
Perhaps, the greatest gift that gardening gives us a positive self-esteem. Psychologists will tell you that the best way to raise your...
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6 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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Aug. 28/10
I picked another batch of tomatoes yesterday. The following photo is from a plant that came up from last year. I think it was a “breakfast tomato” plant.
The tomato is delicious and so meaty – these would make great salsa tomatoes.
The rest of the tomatoes were mostly cherry tomatoes and … some tomatoes that are bigger than cherry tomatoes and are yellow.
I ran them through the juicer. Then I was going to squeeze out the remains to get as much ju...
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8 days ago
by Karson |
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Our little garden has a few pests this morning.
This was on the Fennel plant.
There were quite a few of them some were small. This was the biggest today. There was a larger one on there a few days ago so maybe it went off to make a cocoon.
Black Swallowtale Butterfly
On the tomato plants was this.
On its back you will see some white cocoons these are parasitic wasp cocoons that are feeding on the worms.
When we first saw them we fed the worm to the chickens. they loved them....
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9 days ago
by Robin |
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Every year I like to try something new. This year I thought I would use some of the crab apples growing behind our house to make jelly. It was raining gently when my sons and I went down to pick the crab apples so I did not bring my camera. In between splashing in puddles, we filled a large bowl. The most fun for the boys was climbing the ladder. They also found the temptation to drop crab apples on someone’s head very difficult to resist. They ate so many of the little apples, I wasn’...
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10 days ago
by Iris43 |
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Not much to do in the garden these last days of August. Dead-head a little here, pull a dried up weed there, and maybe prune some unruly plants getting too big and scraggly. But the butterflies are starting to show up, headed south for the winter. The parent hummers have left already and the juveniles are fighting for the sugar water in the feeders and practicing their aerobic maneuvers to strengthen their flying and endurance. The birdfeeders have different birds and the birds have diffe...
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