Tag: gardening
member name: Lou Anne L.
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July 20, 2009 06:48 PM EDT --
I literally threw this together lat night to go wit Kabobs for dinner with our visiting friends. I think it is worth sharing.
1 medium cucumber peeled, cut in half, deseeded and sliced.
1/4 cup diced . . .
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July 28, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
I cannot believe this summer!
OH>>> for oh so many reasons!
It is now nearly the end of July, and I am just now seeing the first of my ripe tomatoes!
It has rained so much here in this . . .
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April 21, 2009 12:36 AM EDT --
My cold frame is working wonderfully for being tis first year!
I pulled and ate my first radishes from it this morning.
French Breakfast's!
I also have a few other types of radish, turnips, . . .
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January 20, 2009 07:18 PM EST --
Sunchoke Facts: All facts in this post are taken from web sources, with personal interjections. Wikipedia and What are Sunchokes.
Sunchokes fresh from the garden.
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July 29, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
It's just around the corner... a two day festival in the heart of southern Missouri!
Come join in on the famil fun August 5th and 6th 2007!
MUSIC
FOOD
gardening lectures
auction
Shopping . . .
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August 02, 2007 01:59 AM EDT --
I really didnt know what to expect for today when I made plans this week to visit with an internet garden forum friend.
Last week she had posted a thread stating she had some pepper plants that . . .
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August 18, 2008 08:25 PM EDT --
I got the camera out today. So I thought I would share a few of my new additions to the garden this year.
Anise Hyssops and Sun Chokes by the front porch. I rather like my surroundings . . .
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January 18, 2009 11:47 PM EST --
Here's to 2009! My hot house of hope is packed full of lst years remnants and this year's babe's...
This will be my third year gardening here and I am hoping third time is a charm!
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December 29, 2007 10:11 PM EST --
Soak 3 oz chopped garlic in 2 tsp of mineral oil for 24 hours.
Disolve 1/4 oz oil based soap( like palmolive) in a pint of water and
add this to the garlic mineral oil combination and . . .
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September 10, 2008 11:21 PM EDT --
Yesterday the local garden club of Forsyth Missouri celebrated 50 years of service to the community.
Our local garden club is a small self- funded group of 20 local residents who live in the . . .
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August 18, 2008 08:53 PM EDT --
Played today with some of my freshly dried beans and corn from the garden(not to mention the peppers and garlic and tomatoes)!
I hulled these from dry pods, washed them and boiled them till . . .
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February 02, 2009 11:42 PM EST --
I am on day 3 of 4 days off. There is so much TO do, and so much I want to do that taking the time to enjoy what I am doing can be difficult. At least the phone isn't ringing. But the stereo is at . . .
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January 08, 2008 11:40 AM EST --
It may be January, but my thoughts are of spring.
I start in mid to late December organizing seeds and starting my logs and journals for the new year.
Since I have a large cold frame/ sort of house, . . .
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July 23, 2008 06:28 PM EDT --
May of 2005 I attended my first Spring Planting Festival on a farm hidden in the hills outside of the small city of Mansfield, Missouri called Baker Creek Farm.
Mansfield might be better . . .
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August 13, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
With the Missouri heat index holding above 100 for better than a week now, and no relief insight untill(forcasted) Sunday, I was wondering how others in Missouri and in other states are maintaining . . .
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June 06, 2008 10:33 PM EDT --
I only have to spend a few moments bent over my green bean patch to remind myself, that what I have done over the last two years is working. In the last three days I have harvested 2 pounds of lovely, . . .
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April 27, 2007 11:11 PM EDT --
With my own hands I work this earth,
Bent in humble admiration.
There are no hidden meanings here.
It is a garden of joyous toil,
It is a garden of eden.
No matter where life has taken me . . .
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August 09, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
I have returned, but I have not come back yet. My head and heart are still at the farm.
It's not so much that it was the perfect weekend, I have come to know that perfection is not a tremendously . . .
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February 20, 2008 12:36 AM EST --
It has been a LONG week, blame my off humor title on that. I can say that the state of the garden is STRONG and mean it, and have pic's to back it up!
Over a month ago I began posting pics of my . . .
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January 16, 2008 10:44 PM EST --
This past week I have been spending some time enjoying Shannon's Cook's Challenge!
In these challenges there are many very common ingredients that one might take for granted, and still others, . . .
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