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Archive for the ‘Gardening’ CategoryA recent post of mine is eligible to win a ticket to a blog conference in Asheville North Carolina. Will you do me a favor and vote for me, @racheltayse? Thanks!! Back in the spring we dedicated one raised bed to Lillian for her own garden. She loved the idea and made an adorable [...] | A carefully dried tomato can carry the taste of summer’s sweet abundance through many seasons. Dried tomatoes provide a distinct chewy texture and richness to pan sauces and stews. They can be eaten as is for a quick burst of vitamin C. Making your own during is not hard at all. Equipment Dried tomatoes are generally made in [...] |August 31st, 2010 | Tags: dehydrating, sundried tomatoes, tomatoes | Category: Gardening, Local Food, Preserving |
| 4 comments A week ago, after wandering the yard looking for a hand tool hiding in the garden, I did something rash: I had them painted. Bright pink. All over. My hand trowels and cultivators are camouflaged no longer. I can find my tools wherever they were last dropped! It’s a wonder I didn’t do this [...] |Oh, Julia Child, you dear pink tomato. Your blushing beauty covers your spicy inside, tempting gardeners for decades. Cherokee Chocolate, dark enchantress of the bunch. That Christmas colored skin of yours yields to a dark juicy flesh, dripping with sunlight transformed to sweetness. Then there’s you, Rutgers. Your pleats, your bulbous inundations, inspire a thousand delicious thoughts.
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August 25th, 2010 | Tags: heirlooms, julia child, tomatoes | Category: Cooking, Gardening, Grow Your Garden, Local Food, What's Growing |
| 5 comments One of the pleasures of living in Ohio on a small plot of land is that succession planting is relatively easy. Succession planting, or seeding crops right after another, extends your growing season from the same plot of land. It works very well if you fill the space from a plant gone by with [...]  |
August 24th, 2010 | Tags: autumn, carrots, made by hand, radishes, succession | Category: Gardening |
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