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The recipe called for 6lbs of tomatoes and since I recently awarded myself 1st place in the tomato category, I chose to use “prize-winning tomatoes” in this recipe. I also decided to play it safe and break out the swine flu pandemic kit and gear up for chopping the jalapenos. The witch hat was an Read More >>
First zucchini of the season… This celery is headed for the potato salad I’m making later today. First beans of the season…hopefully in a few days I’ll be canning green beans for the pantry. I’m seriously regretting not labeling my tomatoes. I planted a few green zebra plants and I’m not sure if these are Read More >>
And the winner is… Sun Gold. The Girl has had her eye on the first ripe tomatoes for a few days now. She decided yesterday was the day to pick them. Instead of eating them right there on the spot she ran inside to weigh them (good girl), then proceeded to eat her all time Read More >>
If you’re not going to get up early and get to the farmer’s market when it first opens, you might as well not go because you are truly missing out! Everybody knows the early bird gets the worm! This morning we (by we I mean I pulled my kids out of bed with threats of Read More >>
Today we continued work on the raised garden beds. I now have 13 and am officially addicted! Somebody stop me. I still think I could squeeze one more in…..maybe tomorrow. Monkey boy and I came across the cheesy 3×3 plastic greenhouse thingy {pretty sure that’s the technical term} you see in the pic above. It Read More >>
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