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 I am Rachel Tayse, keeper of the Hounds in the Kitchen. In my Columbus Ohio urban homestead, I garden, cook, and eat local sustainable foods. Read About the Hounds for more about the characters in my kitchen. I hope to see you soon at an Event.
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Archive for the ‘What's Growing’ CategoryEvery year the months between November and April are a waiting game: will the indoor plants make it through the winter? In addition to some non edible plants, this year I potted several herbs growing outdoors in mid November. My hope is that we can use them in cooking throughout the winter. In the case of [...] It has been a long time since I entered a What’s Growing post. The end of the summer was so busy that I ran out of time to photograph and post on a weekly basis. I hope to be more disciplined next year not only to share with other Columbus gardeners, but to keep records [...] red raspberries planted on the alley fence On Sunday we went shopping at our local nursery Oakland Park for garlic starts (they did not have any hardneck varieties) and blueberries (which they did not have either). They did have a dwarf european plum tree at 33% off. We were sold. For awhile I have been hating [...] What’s growing? Everything! Well, almost everything. Peppers are starting to mature and we are eating them as we need. If we keep them on the vine, they will ripen to red, which is fine by me. unidentified variety (someone should really keep track of these things!) We have tons of green tomatos on the vine. A very [...] Oh goodness. We went on vacation for a week and a half and the garden GREW! It was green stuff everywhere, and most of it didn’t belong. The grass was almost a foot high! broccoli pea patch We threw out the peas (they were past the sweet stage by the time we came home) and transplanted [...] Yesterday was a lazy day with an overcast sky so I finally took time to photograph what’s growing in our garden. Broccoli Raab, Lettuce, Spinach and herbs were all harvested this week Broccoli, Peas, Beans, Squash, Strawberries, Tomatos and Carrots are growing strong We supplemented our peppers grown from seed with 3 sweet yellow and 3 sweet chili [...] We had a lot of rain last week and with that came inches of green sprout growth! Peas are almost 6 inches, beans and squash are leafing, kale has sprouted, spinach is on second set of leaves, and lettuce is almost big enough to eat! lettuce and onions and grass oh my Alex finally convinced [...] This week marks the start of a new series, What’s Growing. We hope to post once a week a list and pictures of what’s growing in our backyard garden and around the neighborhood. So, this week, here’s What’s Growing: Tomato, pepper, foxglove, and broccoli seedlings, being hardened off for a growing number of hours a day  |
 
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