Mark & Beth's Homegrown Adventure
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Tag: Garden
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You Have to Spend Money to… Save Money?
It’s the last day of April, and we’ve been hard at work on our spring garden and spring foraging. It’s been busy and fun, and as usual, hard work. We decided this year to expand the garden again (if you can really call last year an expansion – it was the first year we really
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Season of Renewal
When I started this blog, my goal was to update it weekly in the hope of building a following. But life got messy, and I told myself monthly would be okay. But life got messier, and here I am, not having posted since October. The truth is, my inspiration has been low. We’ve continued to
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August Garden Update!
A lot has happened since our July garden update. It’s weird that I don’t feel like we’ve gotten a ton to harvest, but when I was collecting pictures for this post, I realized that really, while we haven’t had an abundance of anything in particular, we have indeed eaten a lot of different things that
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It’s the Season of Cucurbits
Can you tell I only learned the word “cucurbit” this past year? These are the plants that make up the gourd family, including things like zucchini, summer squash, watermelon, cucumbers, and winter squashes such as spaghetti and butternut. Here in late July, they’re also the plants that are requiring the most effort for me. I’ve
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Cute lil’ Harvest & Garden Pupdate
I was about to write, “we finally did some harvesting from the garden!” But really, it wasn’t our first harvest. Just our first big(ish) harvest. Before today, we picked some sprigs of rosemary, mint, and parsley, some sweet peas, and enough lettuce and kale for a couple small side salads. But it doesn’t feel like
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Here’s What We Did (and reused) in Week 1
Okay, so I know it’s not really week 1 of gardening. We’ve been planning and starting seeds for months. But the weather was sooo nice this week in western Pennsylvania, that it really felt like the beginning of the real gardening season for me. So let me tell you about what we did! The biggest
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