Weekend digging
Well, I’m back from my fabulous four-day scrapbooking retreat in the woods of Menahga, and I’m happy to say that it was a wonderful weekend. Trevor notified me on Friday that my blog entry did,...
View ArticlePickles galore
I suppose, if I keep this up, I’ll have to change this from a gardening blog to a canning blog. . . but I feel like it’s legitimate because I’m using my garden produce for the canning. And there’s not...
View ArticleBeets back story
You may remember a recent post about the beets we grew in our vegetable garden this past summer. It was a respectable crop—not awesome, but not bad. In the past I’ve dedicated much more space to...
View ArticleThe most wonderful time of the year
Well, ONE of the most wonderful times of the year, certainly. . . the seed catalogs have started arriving!!! I always know it’s coming, but still I’m always kind of surprised by how EXCITED it still...
View ArticleSeed trials
I have signed up for the 2012 UMN Extension Master Gardener Veggie & Flower Seed Trial! I am so excited (and I know you have just been waiting for this news)! ;) This year the options were...
View ArticleThe elusive winter beet
I was reading one of my cookbooks (this is started to be a recurring theme, isn’t it?) and came across a recipe for Roasted Beet Salad that I thought looked really good. So I decided to make it along...
View ArticleAnd the winner is. . .
I got a small package in the mail last week from the U of M. . . I knew exactly what it was. It was my seeds for the U of M Master Gardener seed trials! I had requested cucumbers and/or beets, so I...
View ArticleBeet update
I thought maybe it was time for a beet update. As I mentioned this past spring (for those paying attention), we’re doing the beet seed trials for the University of Minnesota this summer. In past...
View ArticleBeet test
We started the beet taste test. . . you may remember that Trevor and I decided to participate in the U of M master gardener seed trials, and got beet seeds to plant. A pretty small number,...
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