Category: harvested
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Here a pepper, there a pepper…
It’s that time when all the Summer fruit is in abundance. Now what the heck do you do with it all? There are only so many ways to stuff a pepper before they all start to taste the same. When trying to figure out what to do with my peppers I happened across the Pacific…
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Double duty bokashi composting
I have share a little garden update success. I’ve been doing bokashi composting (rapid composting) for a little while now and developed a routine that I thought I would share. Bokashi is a method of composting that is basically fermenting kitchen waste with a mixture called EM-1 and then burying it in the ground to…
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A May day in the garden
Memorial Day weekend always seems like a nice time when it comes to gardening. In May so many things are ready to harvest and the Farmers markets and fruit stands are at their peak. Above you can see the lily pads and cattails in my claw foot bath tub pond are doing well.
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Mosquito netting worked!
Last year I had terrible trouble growing these due to the cabbage moth and the earwigs that devoured them. When I peeked under the mosquito netting tonight I found a wonderful surprise. Big cauliflower and not a bug on it and I didn’t have to use any insecticide at all!!!
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Some of my first harvest!
Th is my harvest from some white swiss chard transplanted from the ACE hardware. I just planted some seeds from another variety today called Virgo Swiss Chard from reimerseeds. I hope they are as good these were!
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Senoritas!
Time to start chopping and frying! This is a harvest of señorita jalepenos. They are the mildest kind of jalepeno there is. I like them because you can eat them straight without them being too hot. Because they are not so hot you can actually taste the jalepeno flavor. It’s hard to taste it when…
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Got my sunflowers 🙂
I picked several today and made an arrangement along with a few blue plumbago flowers to set them off. I had to take a picture of course 🙂