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Posted September 5, 2011 by

On Saturday I picked more tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers and made some salsa and relish. I was watching the three kids by myself, so it was quite the adventure. Luckily they were relatively helpful and everything went smoothly. Garden Salsa I used the recipes in the Ball Blue Book as a guide, but since I [...]

Starting the Salsa Making Process

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Posted September 1, 2011 by

Today was a good gardening day so far. I spent a while picking and watering everything in the yard, and I’m headed to the community garden in a little while. Here’s today’s harvest. A bunch of non-cherry tomatoes, even more cherry tomatoes, purple beans, green beans, a single lonely beet, one small carrot, a single [...]

September 1 Harvest

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Posted August 30, 2011 by

August ended up being something of a busy month. It seemed like we had just gotten back from Mississippi and we were off to South Dakota for 4 days for a memorial service for Caroline’s grandpa. We got back Saturday the 20th at 11:30 pm. Here’s what came out of the garden on Sunday the [...]

August 21 Harvest!

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Posted August 16, 2011 by

Harvest Update It’s finally starting to be harvest time. We’ve had little bits trickling in, but today we actually had enough to get really excited! Peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and beans are all producing nicely. Mostly it’s sweet million cherry tomatoes, but there were a few glacier tomatoes too. The cucumbers seem to have appeared out [...]

It seems like I should have a cornucopia instead of a bowl

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Posted May 24, 2011 by

We still have a long ways to go, but the Fridley Farm is finally getting planted. Last night we managed to plant the beans. Some of the black dirt I added this year went to making garden strips along much of our fenced in back yard. We planted up close to the fence, and on [...]

Future Farmers?

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