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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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Week 16 of 52 – Mavis’ Backyard Gard Wow! What a great day for gardening. The temperature outside right now is only about 45 degrees, but the sun is out and with no rain in the forecast for today I plan on spending all day outside. For mid spring, I think the garden is looking pretty good. Read More >>
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First I want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in a garden gnome for our Send in the Gnomes fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We started this crazy adventure just under 3 weeks ago and so far 139 gnomes have come in from all over the world. You can Read More >>
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In the summertime when the zucchinis and tomatoes are plentiful, we will saute whatever we can gather from the backyard garden, add a few eggs and serve it up for breakfast. In the winter, it’s a lot harder to make a fresh vegetable scramble for next to nothing. Unless of course you have a Mr. Read More >>
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I have the most amazing readers, and most of the time, it is me learning from you, but every once in awhile, someone sends in a question that I think, “Hey, I bet lots of people would love to know the answer to that.” So, I am going to try to feature some of your Read More >>
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Today is going to be another wet and soggy day here in the Pacific Northwest but here is the view from the back of the main garden. A few years ago we installed 16 raised garden beds and ever since then I just can’t stay out of the dirt. Mr. Gnome Guy #9 is from Read More >>
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