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    Fertile Fridays: Rain Be Gone!

    by  • June 27, 2009 • garden • 1 Comment

    This month certainly feels like it’s been one rain storm after another. Ok. Maybe it feels that way because it has been that way. We’ve had so few opportunities to get outside and enjoy our yard and work on creating more edible areas. But when we have had the opportunity, we’ve capitalized on it...

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    Fertile Fridays: Gardening is So Fulfilling

    by  • June 20, 2009 • garden • 1 Comment

    Tomatoes! Tomatoes! There are real, albeit tiny, tomatoes on our vines! And tons of blossoms just waiting to burst into more tomatoes. The funny thing is that it’s the sungold cherry tomatoes that are growing at lightning speed, while the early tomatoes I planted are ho-humming along. Go figure. The broccoli is flowering big...

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    Fertile Fridays: Broccoli Flowers?

    by  • June 12, 2009 • garden • 3 Comments

    We harvested and ate most of the broccoli. But, being novices, we failed to harvest this head in time. Did you ever wonder what happens to broccoli left to grow too long? It becomes a beautiful mass of yellow flowers … who knew? I also trimmed away some of the larger leaves on the...

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    Fertile Fridays: First Harvest

    by  • June 6, 2009 • garden • 3 Comments

    We’ve been sort of counting down until we could happily pluck the fresh heads of broccoli from our garden … today, we did just that — while making dinner. There was something amazing about running outside, plucking a few of the heads and then washing and preparing it. The broccoli literally went from garden...

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    Fertile Fridays: Sweet Success

    by  • May 23, 2009 • garden • 2 Comments

    As someone who hasn’t had much luck in the past with gardening, I am constantly amazed and wowed when I look out my office window. Greeted with a large ball of catmint, yellow and fuchsia (when I tried to think of the word for the color, all I could think was magenta … I...

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    Fertile Fridays: Oh My Broccoli!

    by  • May 15, 2009 • garden • 5 Comments

    Can you see that? That tiny little beginning of broccoli stopped me dead in my tracks today. I had already written this post and just needed the photos to go with it … then I saw that little spurt of broccoli and I couldn’t contain myself. Ooooh. I am so unspeakably excited. It’s really...

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    Fertile Fridays: Up, Up and Away!

    by  • May 9, 2009 • garden • 3 Comments

    Rain, rain, rain. Sun. Rain, rain, rain. Sun. That’s been the weather pattern here for the majority of the last week or so. And what does weather like that mean for the foliage? It means lots of growth (yay!) and lots of very tall weeds (boo!). If the weather can hold off for long...

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    Fertile Fridays: Rained Out

    by  • May 2, 2009 • garden • 4 Comments

    Each Friday, I let you have a peek into my garden. This is the first year that my garden has been progressing in such clear and certain order, and I am so excited to share it. This week, I really wanted to show you the beginnings of blueberries that appeared on the blueberry bushes,...

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    Fertile Fridays: Totally Grounded

    by  • April 24, 2009 • garden • 4 Comments

    Will talked all last week about eating outside. We have our table and chairs set up by our newly appointed flower garden and he just couldn’t wait to use it. So, when Sunday evening rolled around, Shawn started up the grill and I got everything we needed onto a tray to carry outside. It...

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