As we gear up for the start of gardening season, I was interested in the following post at kitchengardeners.org. In it they detailed the amount of financial savings from a 1600 square foot garden. What about you? Gonna have a garden this year? Tell me about it below. You might also...
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gardening
What is a garden worth?
It must be fall
(My husband has the week off, and I am making the most of it by working hard on my latest writing project. Here for you is something I wrote around this time last year.)
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The woodpile is heaped tall and wide and deep, and covered with a brand new tarp. The stove pipe has...
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I’m a little teapot
Look at the sweet little teapot that grew in our garden!
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(Added: a second picture for perspective)
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canning mania
Time for my yearly full-pantry picture.
I have 7 full shelves and 1 shelf partway full of jars. Each shelf holds 33 quarts. But a couple of the shelves are double-stacked with pint jars. I am guessing I have over 250 jars, plus about 10 gallon-sized ziplocks of dried tomatoes, apples and apricots....
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From the garden this morning
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Garden
I wanted to share part of the secret of our low grocery bills: our garden. Our main garden patch is about 50 x 100 feet, and produces cabbage, peppers, corn, cukes, squash, pumpkins, and tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. This year we have 95 tomato plants (left, under a black plastic shade).
Last year our garden...
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