We got a late start gardening this year and wouldn’t have a garden at all if it weren’t for my brother-in-law Tom, who did all the sod busting and the planting. He made six vegetable beds, each 12 feet long and three and a half feet wide. The cucurbita have done especially well. Here you […]
Last night we reached into the freezer to turn a simple chicken dinner into something memorable. Under the ice cubes was a bag of heirloom Italian green beans–our favorite variety–that I harvested and froze from our garden over the summer. They’d been blanched before going into the freezer. To bring them to the dinner table, […]
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I like to mulch with straw in our vegetable beds. It sets off the plants nicely and gives the garden a clean look. It does everything else a good mulch should do as well, retaining moisture in the soil and holding down weeds. Eventually straw just seems to melt into the soil, adding more organic […]
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