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How are your spring gardening chores coming along? Are all your beds cleared yet? 😉 I think we are about 25% of the way through our garden prep and man oh man, our muscles are sore! It took us 2 days just to clear the blueberry patch! Last year about midway through the picking season, Read More >>
Hello and Happy Wednesday! Things are really beginning to heat up around here and with temperatures on the rise, you can bet we are taking full advantage of the nice weather and have been playing outside and working in the garden almost non stop the last few days. On Monday we had 7 yards of Read More >>
If I could teach you one tool and only one tool to maximize your garden’s harvest, it would be succession planting! Technically succession planting is putting in a new bed of the same vegetable at intervals throughout the growing season. Basically it’s continuous planting or staggered plantings so that you get a constant harvest of Read More >>
And so it begins… It has been a long and restful winter here in New England, and even though I know we’re not done with the snow or freezing temperatures, it’s time to get started on this years garden. 😉 Yesterday I planted artichoke and rosemary seeds in the little biodegradable non-woven nursery bags I ordered off Read More >>
My 22 Goals for 2019 Goal #1 — Spend More Time Doing What I Love I spent most of Sunday and part of Monday looking out the window and admiring the snow…. But now it’s all gone now. It was nearly 60 degrees on Tuesday and now our road is one big soggy mess. Sniff Read More >>
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