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 The ground cherries are finally picking up the pace. I left the garden gloves beside the one in the picture so you don’t get the idea that it’s huge or anything. I’m not believing they will make anything before the snowballs fly. Dare I speak of the Jerusalem Artichoke…choke. The taller they get the more [...]

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 I’m not sure that I want to think about it. Was it not yesterday or so that I said I like to have my garden in before this weekend? Remember why? I feel like an old sage predicting the weather like this. Can I be a young ‘old sage?’   This ‘Dandelion Butter in Whipped Cream’ [...]

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The leaves are out. There should be a happy dance for this. It makes me feel like a kid again. My peas got planted yesterday finally. I could have put them in earlier but was a tad busy. I soaked them for a day before hand and watered the trenches to give them the best [...]

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  I have spring fever now that my new little seedlings have come through the soil! I grow all my own plants (or try to) from seeds I’ve collected from the last year. Now that’s starting from scratch! I don’t have a ‘real’ greenhouse, just a bay window that I installed with no light filters in [...]

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