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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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Garden Watering System
My husband is very good at solving problems. He is always innovating to make things work better in our home and garden. This year he had some great ideas for our watering system in the garden. There is a lot to it and I mostly just want to document that it happened. If you would like more details I will happily write more. Otherwise, I am just going to let the pictures do the talking. Here in this great state of Utah we don’t get enough rain to keep our plants growing so we have to devise ways to get water to our plants. In the past we have used…
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Why Garden?
I was surprised by how much I have enjoyed gardening. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, such as myself, are encouraged to be self sufficient. One way we can increase our self sufficiency is by growing our own food. My parents and grandparents have always had gardens. As a kid I often helped in the garden. I have good and bad memories of that I usually got the impression from my parents that it was something that we should do and not something that they wanted to do. That may have just been because I was a kid and didn’t really want to be pulling weeds.…
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Starting a Garden
A friend of mine had some questions, and I want to answer them for her as quickly as possible. I thought there might be some others who would appreciate the questions she had. How do I compost quickly and easily to make the best garden? There are a lot of ways to compost. If you haven’t already read my post on our compost pile you can read it here. If this is your first spring planting a garden, you are probably too late to do much composting this year. I would start thinking about it for next year though. Composting is a great way to put nutrients back into the…
