Garden
Ideas for a vegetable garden
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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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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…
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Pickled beets
This year we dicided to try a new variety of beets. They are supposed to be striped like a peppermint candy. They turned out to be really pretty. Unfortunately they don’t look quite as good pickled as the good old dark red ones. But, they taste just as good. Maybe even better. It’s hard for me to compare because the last time we grew beets I was expecting our second baby and I was a bit nauseous when I was doing the pickled beets. I had to fight to overcome my association with morning sickness and beets. I have been dragging my feet a bit actually. This time around Tyler…
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Squash
This year when we did our compost pile we threw in a couple pumpkins from two different varieties and some Hubbard squash. We thought, with it being so cold, that all the seeds would be frozen. But come spring we saw patches like this picture below all over the garden where we had spread our compost. My husband calls the plants that come up on their own “volunteers”. Which I have no doubt is a common term. I just wasn’t into gardening much before we moved here so I had never heard it. With all these volunteer squash plants we didn’t have to plant any of the pumpkin or squash…
