source Did you know you can make your own sun dried tomatoes? I've wanted to try using them in several recipes but when I looked at the store, sun dried tomatoes are so expensive! I couldn't justify the cost for just a few pieces of tomatoes. You can find the instructions for making your own sun dried tomatoes here, or you can do what I did and [More...]
Garden Update and Groundhogs
I've finally been able to start harvesting some veggies! A few days ago I harvested a bunch of broccoli, and the kids have been eating peas off the vine like crazy. There are only 4 pea plants because I hadn't planned on planting them this year, and my son found the seeds and planted them when I wasn't looking.My zucchini is doing well..I've [More...]
Dinner from the Garden: Recipe
Some of my broccoli plants are finally ready! I planted broccoli this year for 2 main reasons: 1) my kids like it (usually) and 2) it freezes well, and is usually expensive when bought out of season.I didn't get as much broccoli out of the garden as I had hoped, but I'm thankful for what I did get! I cut 3 heads out of the garden yesterday and [More...]
How Does Your Garden Grow?
This year our garden experience started off well, then quickly became discouraging when birds or squirrels ate almost all my seeds before they sprouted. Then what didsprout was eaten as well within days. 2 rows each of beets, carrots, and broccoli, gone. 2 plants each of cucumber, zucchini, and cantaloupe, gone. And poor Tobi; I replanted his [More...]
Baby Bird
On Thursday I went out to the garden and was surprised to see a couple of baby birds in it! Unfortunately, one of them was dead, but the other was alive. The kids loved the bird and chased the poor thing to the edge of the garden. After a time-out for throwing dirt at the poor thing, the kids finally learned to love it from a distance. The bird [More...]
Gardening and Linky!
It's that time again! This will be our second year with a garden, and this year it'll be a fair bit bigger. Louis enlarged the garden plot for me after last year's season to almost twice it's previous size. (Last year everything was pretty cramped and the harvest was smaller than it could have been since some plants didn't get enough [More...]
Stuff is Growing in my Garden!
Yes, I know, that's the whole part of having a garden, but I'm a COMPLETE amateur when it comes to all the green thumb stuff. We moved here in May, and I had to dig my garden plot from scratch, so things got started a bit late. I planted a bunch of lettuce, peas, beans, zucchini and radishes from seeds, and some tomatoes and peppers from plants. I [More...]
