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Yesterday The Girl and I went out to the greenhouse to pick some lettuce for a dinner salad and were happy to see the mesclun lettuce we had planted earlier this fall was perfect for harvesting. Look at those leaves!! It’s almost November and here I am harvesting gourmet lettuce leaves. Does it get any Read More >>
Last week the only thing I harvested was 3 ounces of chives. Whoop. T. Do. But, I did plant an entire bed with winter carrots and radishes, so that kind of makes up for it, right? 🙂 Even though there isn’t a whole lot going on in the garden these days harvest wise, I Read More >>
Hello! My husband, Christopher, and I (Shannon) live in Fairbanks, Alaska. We actually just met October 2012 and married this July, and this is a story of our first garden together. Most of the pictures here are his handiwork. Here in Alaska, we must start many of our plants inside, sometimes months ahead of time. Temperatures Read More >>
I was walking around the garden yesterday and spotted a few Tri-Star strawberries and decided to snap some pictures to show you what’s growing in our backyard garden right now. We live in Western Washington and usually don’t get freezing temps until around the beginning to mid November, so even though it doesn’t look like there Read More >>
This past week we harvested squash, potatoes, tomatoes and kale from our backyard garden. Things have totally slowed down because of the colder temperatures, but I don’t mind. I think it’s kind of nice because it give me more time to get a few projects crossed of my list both indoors and out. Last week Read More >>
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