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I wish I had more time for writing in my blog.  I really do. CRAZY BUSY Just got done putting on a little Earth Flag parade for stewardship campaign at church with the help of friends and I’ve been organizing my spring classes. “Menu for the Future” spring series cranks up again on Friday at [...]

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I was recently cruising the Osceola Gardening Almanac. I like the breakout of 3 mos at a time.  There’s also the monthly breakout by Orange County Extension Office. I think I might manage a small 2 ft x 8 ft herb bed.  That would be nice.  I like what fresh herbs do for cookery. I [...]

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The Other Spring

This morning Julia told me that she wanted to sleep some more. “I don’t WANT to go to kindergarten!” So I pulled the Mom Classic of going selectively deaf.  “Get up. You have to eat breakfast.” Paul didn’t get her to bed on time last night and she’s grumpy. But Julia is actually adjusting well [...]

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Time for Low Key

I am resisting the urge to do anything housework-y right now.  It’s 10:22 PM.  What I ought to do is make myself some tea and think about doing something relaxing. I’m trying to learn not to be so Type A. Each and every summer day doesn’t have to be crammed full of things. This is [...]

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Life has been busy with one special event or another. Just got done with a benefit performance of Rocky Horror over at church. That was a blast! YESTERDAY Yesterday and today we put in some garden work. We’d started do last month but got derailed, but I think we’re definitely going now. The momentum is [...]

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Hello, Eggplant!

Here is our most recent backyard harvest for dinner….I was thinking pasta so there were the first two eggplants, then some green basil and some purple basil, any little yellow tomatoes that were ready… and I decided to bring in the next two purple cherokees to finish ripening in the kitchen perhaps for some future [...]

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Remember the lettuce we planted shortly before Winter Solstice? We’ve been eating them. Here is one of them  12/21/07: It was like this on  1/30/08: On 2/8/04 it had gotten this fluffy so I decided to harvest it and its friends and make a salad: Here is the first harvest: Julia did not want to [...]

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“Dirt Day” is always a fun day over at my house. My preschooler looooves to dig and it’s one of her favorite parts to getting a new bed together. In the All New Square Foot Gardening book, Mel Bartholomew suggests this formula for making up your soil mix for your raised bed: 1/3 vermiculite 1/3 [...]

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Introduction I started putting in a 100 sq ft kitchen garden for myself last summer. I’m still nowhere close to being done installing beds and I’m still learning as I go along when it comes to growing edibles. But I’ve really gotten to love spending time with my preschooler puttering around in the yard. I’ve [...]

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Today was fun — carrot harvest day. Out of the 32 seeds I put in, we got 23 out. Though next time I will plant 9 per sq foot rather than the suggested 16 because they get fluffy, and then the bigger ones cover up the smaller ones and they struggle for light. They were [...]

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