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Have you ever had your soil tested? I recently tested mine with this super simple Luster Leaf pH Soil Testing Kit. Basically, you just need soil samples and distilled water. To do the test, dig a couple of holes {the test comes with 10 capsules for testing} in your garden about 6″-8″ deep, collect some dirt, Read More >>
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I don’t know about you, but I love it when I only have to spend a whopping 5 minutes throwing dinner together. This chicken turned out unbelievably moist. I hope you like it. We sure did. Ingredients 3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts 1 15 oz can stewed tomatoes 4 cloves of garlic 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1 Read More >>
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I can’t remember a time, in my adult life, when I wasn’t just a little bit tired. Can you? I try to get enough sleep, but still, by the afternoon, I’m beat. So when I stumbled onto an NPR Article that highlighted a study done by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on tiredness, men Read More >>
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10 Ways to Keep Deer Out of Your Garden I know many of you deal with deer using your garden as an all-you-can-eat buffet and trampling everything in their path as they do. While a little bit of nature right outside your back door is awesome, having them in your garden is not. So, here Read More >>
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Yesterday was an amazing day with lot’s of sunshine. I was able to work on a few garden projects and one of them was planting a few more vegetables in our square foot garden. As of today we have 14 of the 32 squares planted. The sugar snap peas and celery we planted 2 weeks ago Read More >>
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Last week was really weird. I barely left the house. On Monday I picked up 40 pounds of chicken from Zaycon and spent an entire afternoon and a good part of the next day cooking and processing the meat. When The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird found out we were getting a boatload of chicken, she immediately requested Read More >>
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{Spring 2009} In spring of 2008 we built the house we live in now. Over the summer, I created our first garden bed {12’x20′} and filled it will tons of tomato, cucumber and zucchini plants. Even though we had moved to a wooded neighborhood, it still never occurred to me the deer who roamed freely up and Read More >>
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I don’t know about you, but I love poppy flowers and I just can’t get enough of them. This year I planted 3 varieties: Oriental Blend Lauren’s Grape Hungarian Blue Brief description: Poppy flowers are absolutely gorgeous. They are very heat and drought tolerant, so they require almost no care {yay!}. They are technically an annual, but have been Read More >>
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