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When you live in a climate with cold winters, it’s pretty darned tricky growing veggies year round. If you’ve been following me, you know I grow some very cold-tolerant vegetable crops in a hoop house during the winter months. But this winter, I’m also trying something for the first time: growing microgreens! You’ve probably heard of folks sprouting seeds, where […]
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This is my 4th year of growing cold-tolerant veggies during the fall and winter months. As many of you know, my winter garden is growing inside a small hoop house that my husband, Bill, and I built a few years ago. Now it’s time for the first update since I planted it: Overall, the plants are growing well despite the […]
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OK, so you grew a bunch of lovely veggies this year. Now what? How about using some of them to make a big pot of yummy, homemade vegetable soup? I’m a lucky gal. My Mom was an awesome soup-maker. Some of my best memories — aside from eating them, of course — was sitting at the breakfast bar in the […]
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All good things come to an end, right? Well, that holds true for my garden. I just finished shooting the video for my last vegetable garden tour of the 2016 garden season. We’ve had two killing frosts so far, which means most of the garden is done. Take a look at the video to see how everything looks and to […]
Read moreIt’s time for my end-of-the-year vegetable report card, so you will know how the different varieties I grew performed in my garden. You might recall that I wrote an early-spring post showing a list of the varieties I planned to grow this year. As you read through the report card, you’ll notice there are some varieties that I said I’d […]
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Way back in May, I reported on my Facebook page how I’d succumbed to temptation and purchased a ‘Big Zac’ tomato plant while working at the Master Gardener plant sale. Even though I already had plenty of tomato plants started from seed, I just couldn’t resist. What’s so special about ‘Big Zac’? Well, when I read that it’s supposed to produce […]
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Just to put some closure on my series of videos about getting the maximum amount of tomatoes off your plants and getting those pesky green tomatoes to ripen, I’ve filmed my final video on the topic for this year. Here you go: Just in case you missed the previous videos, I’m including them below so you don’t have to go searching […]
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I know what you’re thinking. Why would anyone want to know how to make catsup when they can just buy a bottle in the grocery store? I used to think that, too. That is, until we made our own just for fun many years ago. Homemade catsup is AMAZING! It’s kind of like a gourmet steak sauce in our opinion. It […]
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Every year, I grow one or two varieties of paste tomatoes for making sauce, ketchup and salsa. Why paste tomatoes? They typically are meatier types that cook down fairly quickly because they don’t have as much juice as a regular slicing tomato. For the last several years, ‘Italian Pompeii’ (center of top photo) has been my go-to paste tomato. They […]
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