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One minute I’m planning the garden  and waiting for Spring to sprung and the next thing you know I’m eating weeds and what would normally be tossed in the compost! Often in cooking magazines and on TV you see celebrity chefs garnishing their plates with “microgreens.”  Hmm.. not so difficult. And quite appealing to me. [...]

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A Quick Project and Vegetable Garden Status

May 19, 2012
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The week of warm weather has certainly moved things along but without rain I’m depending too much on municipal water to keep things moist. Last year I used and reviewed Growboxes* and the peppers seemed to do the best of the all veggies using that method. I’ve got them planted again (I purchased one more Growbox [...]

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Meatless Monday – Frittata with Wild Onions, Goat Cheese and Herbs

May 14, 2012
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I was out looking for morels was skunked again, this crazy spring has the calendar all topsy-turfy. I’m not going to get any this year but I think I’ll get some raspberries in a while here. What I was able to forage was a bag of wild onions. They are not at their peak as they [...]

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Lambs Quarters and Chive Blossoms

May 8, 2012
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Two things came together to bring you this post. 1) I needed to clear out the “weeds” from one of the beds from last year and, 2) I was reading Hank Shaw’s Hunter Angler Gardener Cook  and he was talking about lambs-quarters. Those previously mentioned weeds  were primarily  lambs-quarters, so while I could just add them [...]

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Sunday Garden Status

May 7, 2012
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I realize I’ve been pretty quiet lately, and with the exception of a few chive-talking posts not much has been going on here. I’ve been busy, the seedlings all died while I was in Germany and the incessant rain the last week slowed things down around here. We’re still about 10 days before last frost [...]

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