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A big thank you to everyone who mentioned their roasted broccoli recipes. I have plenty of broccoli left over, so roasted broccoli and salmon are on the menu for tomorrow night. Yay! I called the HH and asked him what I should do with the broccoli and he suggested broccoli soup, so after a quick Read More >>
This is the first year I have been successful at growing broccoli, and I owe it all to starting my seeds indoors under grow lights. Earlier this spring instead of planting broccoli seeds in the garden and hoping for the best, I chose to plant my seeds indoors instead. And it made all the difference Read More >>
Yesterday was the perfect day to transplant seedlings. It rained lightly, and every few hours there was about a one hour window of sunshine. Talk about perfect weather for planting seedlings if you ask me. Although this raised bed of Rainbow Swiss Chard doesn’t look all that exciting right now, take a look at the Read More >>
We’ve had a nice batch of sunny days in Seattle lately. So nice in fact I’ve been spending all of my free time in the garden. Which is good. It keeps me out of the bars and discos. Ha Ha Ha. Do you remember the cabbage and stinky brussels sprouts I started from seed under Read More >>
I’m beginning to think that if I had to grow all our food we would starve to death. Today’s harvest? 2 oz radish, 2 oz lettuce and 1 oz broccoli. Maybe growing 2,000lbs of garden produce is going to be harder that I thought.
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