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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,...

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Pickles 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...

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Beets 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...

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The 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...

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Seed 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...

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The 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...

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And 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...

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Beet 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...

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Beet 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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