Everyday I check my garden. I do a few things: 1) water unless it rained 2) look for new growth and check for what there is to harvest – this time of year I eat a few sugar snap peas and usually a strawberry. freshly picked spinach is the best too if the leaf is […]
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I usually dont enjoy harvesting peas because they are so hard to find on the vine. They are the same color as the vine & leaves and it takes me a while to find them. This day it was so nice to have them all just hanging out of the trellis ready to be picked! […]
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I have four tomato plants stretching to reach the trellis. I trim back most of the leaves at the base of my tomatoes so they spend more energy getting to the trellis and not bushing out. I don’t remember the varieties I bought this year but I think one is better boy and one is […]
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I have two orange trees, a satsuma and a navel orange. For some reason the navel is doing great and the satsuma is barely growing. I hope the satsuma will catch up. I wish you could smell the orange blossom picture – it is heavenly. I love the blossoms and the bees that come with […]
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As excited I am about Spring arriving, I don’t welcome the bugs that come with it. Winter time gardening is so nice to be almost bug free. I check my garden weekly for bugs and try to stay on top of it. I went out of town last summer and had a few hundred thousand […]
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I planted potatoes back on this date and here are a few updated pictures of them growing. My husband grew up farming potatoes, so I have an expert to help me with all the details of growing potatoes. Last year I tried growing potatoes in a wire cage, I saw the idea on pinterest and […]
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