Growing Produce
Tips and tricks for growing your own food.
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A New Garden
We have been settling into our new home and it has been so great so far. It is really exciting to be able to have our own space. We went from a two bedroom apartment with one bathroom to a four bedroom 2.5 bath home. So we have a lot more space to put things, which has been really nice. We have a lot of plans for future improvements, but nothing is really very urgent. Most of the house is great, if not up-to-date, it is at least in good condition. With the way building costs are at the moment we don’t really want to get into home improvement projects…
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Weeds
I realized this week the I haven’t posted in quite a while. I feel like I am doing a lot but not getting a lot done. Do you ever feel like that. My baby is getting big, he’s tripled in weight in 5 months. Which is great because he started out at 5 pounds, which was way too small. So that pretty much explains where a majority of my time and sleep has gone to. The other thing I have been doing a lot lately is pulling weeds. sigh. The thing about having a garden is that you are always going to have to deal with weeds. It is just…
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Spinach
Hey friends! How are things going? I’m going a little crazy here. But I am also feeling very grateful for the opportunities this quarantine business has provided. For example, I always kind of liked the idea of homeschooling. But we decided not to go that route, and I was satisfied with that choice, but I have sometimes wondered. Well, I’m not saying that I am rocking it or anything, but we are making it work. And it turns out, I like public school. 🙂 And my daughter does too, which is great because for a while there she was begging to do home school. There are a lot of great…
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Not Just Produce
I realize that I have not posted about all the things we have been doing. I am hoping that next year will be a little better. But the fact of the matter is that I have spent most of the spring summer and fall growing something. Not produce, it’s a baby! A baby boy to be precise. If you are friends with me in real life you already know this. But I just wanted to make sure it was documented in my blog as well. It turns out growing a baby takes a lot out of a person. Looking back on the summer and fall I have realized just how…
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Applesauce
I love applesauce. I love eating it. I love making it. And I really love how it makes my house smell. Cooked apples with cinnamon …mmmmm… nothing really beats that. The other major plus for me is how many apples it takes to make applesauce. If you have an apple tree you know what I am talking about. When you get a big crop of apples there is just no way that you can eat them all before they start going bad. This is what we were dealing with this year. Applesauce is a great way to use a lot of apples and make them shelf stable. Then you can…
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Pickled Peppers
Try our recipe for pickled peppers. We love it with Mariachi's but you can use the same recipe for jalapenos or probably any kind of pepper.
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Sweet Relish
This sweet relish is pretty simple to make. Though it is rather time consuming to chop and then soak all the veggies. But I think it is worth it!
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Tomato Sauce
We eat a lot of tomato sauce in this house. It is easy and fast. I make some kind of Italian dish at least once a week. Plus, we started having pizza and movie night every Friday and I use tomato sauce for the pizza as well. We have started planting enough tomato plants that we could keep ourselves supplied in tomato sauce without buying it from the store. That is usually about 10-12 tomato plants. That means that I make a lot of tomato sauce. So we had to come up with a good method for doing it. I think we have got it down. I have looked up…
