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How does one "EAT Green"? It's a popular topic, and everyone has an opinion. Here is my answer: daily Eat something green every day. And I don't mean green and fuzzy with an odd smell to it. "Greens", as defined by most people, refer to leafy vegetables - kale, chard, collards, spinach, mustard, lettuces and the like. But don't forget ...
Three weeks into the year and I've already received all of my seed catalogues. I've spent the last few days laying out my garden plan on the computer. Already the list of jobs to do (outside of planting, seeding, etc) is a mile long. We usually begin with whatever jobs weren't finished last year. Makes ...
It is usually a struggle to get a decent rink made in time for Christmas. We bought a rink kit a few years ago, but without the right kind of weather, it still won't work. Some years, winter arrives early with a huge dumping of snow in late November, but it's often just a lot of ...
I was worried that my beautiful greens might take a wee bit of a hit tonight (-2 predicted), so we rigged a temporary mini hoophouse over the garden bed. It was a very last minute decision - made at about 4pm - and I think we did well. We happened to have several yards of 3/4 ...
With all of the tomatoes ripening on the counter, it was no surprise to find a few fruit flies flitting around. I detest them. So, in a mild panic, I decided to get every scrap of food off the counter and into the fridge, and I put the kitchen compost outside on the ...
I harvested potatoes and onions today. The onions are perfect, round and uniform - I'm quite pleased. The only bummer is that I didn't plant enough of them. The potatoes are from my second planting, which I did in the experimental stacked bins. Russet Burbanks in all three. RBs are ...
Something's feasting on my winter spinach. I can recognize rabbit damage when I see it, so I've started a nightly cayenne ritual. I grew the pretty pepper plants two years ago to defend my garden against small critters. They were gorgeous plants, very bushy, just dripping with bright red finger-sized peppers. I ...
It was a strange day of intermittent sunshowers. Capricious weather. Mercurial. Jeckyll-and-Hyde. The clouds would part, the sun would burst through, then the rain would come. It's a lovely time to be outside, actually. The sunlight flashes off the dripping plants and leaves you too dazzled to do any ...
So, I'm sitting here eating my raw vanilla ice cream, and I've finally got my raw crackers in the dehydrator, after waiting a day and a half for my raw macaroons to reach the perfect crispness, and I'm thinking It's time to come out of the closet. It's been over a year since I ...
I have one. Back in the spring, I started half a dozen each of red cabbage, green cabbage and brussels sprouts. The latter grew well in the cell packs, but never actually made it into the garden (I ran out of space). Of the others, the red were annihilated by cabbage worms, ...
It's the same story every year: I'm happily going about my daily harvest - bringing in the beets, the potatoes, the tomatoes, the peppers - and enjoying the warm days and cool nights that September brings, when suddenly Environment Canada issues a Frost Warning. I'm usually wrapping up my evening with a soothing ...
I don't think I've ever watered tomatoes, or any part of my garden, in the month of September. At least, not until this year. I would normally be putting away the hoses and fittings at this time of year, but we haven't had rain in weeks. I watered about ten days ago, ...
I also have a love/hate relationship with recipes that promise to “put a dent in that zucchini harvest”.
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