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In Simply Me, I will share my experiences as I cook through all the recipes in Simply in Season. Through this process I hope to discover simple ways of preparing local, healthy foods and learn more about nutrition, sustainability, and how our eating choices impact the world.
I’ve decided that my garden is mostly for snacking. To recap: The herbs have dried up, from lack of watering, never having quite recovered from the long 4th of July weekend in intense heat with no water. The carrots and beets were eaten by rabb (read full article)
Sometimes, we must sacrifice. My lettuce had bolted and turned into a vine. My fennel was dried up. So I took out my scissors and cut them out. I left the few remaining pea vines that are dying out. You can see that Grigio still likes to nibble on th (read full article)
Look, we have color! And I can’t believe how many cherry tomatoes are on this plant. Lots of green tomatoes on the orange heirloom tomato plant too! As DH said, the tomatoes are not keeping to their "square." I must have forgot (read full article)
I haven’t been taking pictures of my CSA share. It looks pretty much the same until the summer vegetables start to come in. You can just imagine Swiss chard, kale, spinach, green onions, chives, parsley, lettuce, kohlrabi, mini cabbages. Ooh, w (read full article)
This week was a little slim as we wait for the summer veggies to come in. I ended up with lettuce, green onions, Swiss chard, kale, kohlrabi, bok choy, fava beans, and peas. I actually got a double portion of fava beans because my friend Cindy didn&# (read full article)
My lettuce has bolted. I hacked it off in the hopes it would grow back. We'll see! My peas are starting to develop little white flowers. Cherry tomatoes are developing on the plant I got from the greenhouse. Also on the other tomato plants I boug (read full article)
DH is such a sweetie! He put in a garden bed for me this weekend and also helped fence in the garden area to keep the bunnies out. The bunnies have eaten my beets and carrots but the peas survived. The bag garden is working well for them, but after t (read full article)
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