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Sunday, October 18, 2009
The temperature has dropped significantly, and this year's garden has come to a close... almost.
I still have acorn squash waiting to be picked...
And another hidden beneath the vines.
Just one butternut squash this year. You are going to make yummy soup butternut.
Two eggplants.
We raised our potatoes.
We didn't exactly get a bumper crop there. About a dozen taters this size. Next year we need to plant the potatoes earlier in the year.
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Friday, October 02, 2009
I forgot to blog about some of the heirloom veggies we got from the garden this summer. We planted a purple pepper... and got just this one. It was green on the inside. I chopped it up into salsa.
We also planted these heirloom lemon cucumbers. They tasted just like regular cucumbers.
I made them into refrigerator pickles.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Aaron's mint plant is getting huge!
So he trimmed a bunch of it and I put it in paper bags to dry (thanks to Aprille's recommendation). Mint tea here I come!
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Saturday, September 05, 2009
This year Aaron and I planted mostly heirloom tomatoes. These are called Pineapple Heirloom Tomatoes. They don't turn bright red, more of an orange.
Even the insides were a swirl of yellow and orange.
These little guys are Black Zebra Heirloom Tomatoes.
Their insides were red and green. I think they were the tastiest.
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
We have a bumper crop of tomatoes this summer. We planted several heirloom varieties, the most successful of which is our Syrian Giant tomatoes.
Look at this beast! It weighed one and a half pounds.
I found these larger sized freezer jars.
Perfect for batches of salsa! Now we can freeze some and have homemade salsa this winter! (I shared with my peeps too)
Labels: cooking , garden , tomato
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
I have been looking at sprouters for awhile and I finally settled on this one. I figured how could I go wrong with EasySprouter - The easiest sprouter ever!
The first seeds I tried were alfalfa sprouts.
It really was easy.
We ate some of the sprouts with avocado and tomato in pita pockets. Next up... bean sprouts!
Labels: food , garden , product
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
It has been raining an awful lot this summer... but wow my rain barrel is full!
Perfect for filing my watering cans for my flowers and herbs!
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Remember the mint Aaron planted a few weeks ago?
Look at it now! Soon it will be knocking at the door singing "Feed me Seymour!"
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Aaron and I have talked about planting potatoes but it didn't seem like it would work well in our raised garden. So I found these Smart Pots that you can grow potatoes in.
The spuds are all tucked in - now we wait.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Aaron and I are suckers for garden accessories. We are trying out these tomato trays that claim the red color makes the plants grow better.
We put them in place and are hoping for the best. I wonder if the tomatoes aren't supposed to be red (like this heirloom Black Zebra) if the red tray still works.
The garden is coming along nicely.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Oscar and Stewie put their change together and got Aaron an early Father's Day present.
It's half a wine barrel for planting. It even has the winery stamp on the bottom.
He planted a wee mint plant in it.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
The hat I bought at the Great Wall last summer in China is now my garden hat.
I also have a garden apron now too, I always make a mess when I'm potting plants.
So ahhh yeah. I have a complete gardening outfit.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Aaron just harvested some of his rhubarb. He sure does love rhubarb. I could hear him out in the kitchen chopping it up into freezer bags - humming happily to himself.
I took some of the rhubarb and made a strawberry rhubarb pie. That's how I like my rhubarb. Mmmm crumb crust.
Labels: baking , garden , pie
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
We had a great Memorial Day weekend. We slept in every morning and had breakfast at our favorite places...
We had the new Starbuck's breakfast sandwiches (good), Jim's Restaurant coffee cake, and Public Market breakfast tacos.
We had iced coffee everyday. Aaron broke down and got one of the double walled cups too, only Venti sized.
Aaron tore down a wall in the basement and started our basement improvement project.
Outside, I planted our window boxes, herbs and then we planted our garden.
A lot of work but we also saw "I Love You Man", "Terminator Salvation", "Night at the Museum" and watched "The Happening" on Netflix.
And we didn't turn the TV on once this weekend!
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
We took our haul of tomatoes and made spaghetti sauce.
All those tomatoes and all that work...
... and we only got one jar of sauce!
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Friday, August 29, 2008
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Grape tomato harvest
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What to do with all these tomatoes?
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
My tomatoes grew a lot while I was in China. I see lots of BLTs in my future.
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