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Tomato Canning Season Begins

Ah, the joy, the satisfaction, the aching back and legs.

Today marks the first round of tomato canning from the garden.  A small batch,  10 1/2 quarts.

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I hate it while I’m doing it, but I love it when I can grab a big jar out of the pantry on a snowy winter day.

Onward…to the Advil bottle.

On Spring and Dogs and Frogs

Has spring finally arrived in Northern Ohio?

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On Gardening and Global Warming

I keep saying to myself that I need to sit down and plan out the expanded garden.  It will be roughly 4 times the size of last year and I need to figure out what will go where and when things need to get in the ground.

However, global warming has not arrived in Northern Ohio as yet.  And although it is not snowing, there’s a cold rain falling that is right on the edge.

It’s hard to map out the garden when it does not appear it will ever be warm enough to plan anything.

From Victory Garden to Kick Them Where It Hurts Garden!

I think I mentioned in my last post that we were planning a much bigger garden this year. Like, much bigger.

Here’s how we are going to make that happen:

Tow behind tiller

Out with the old Troybilt tiller, in with the tow-behind DR PowerTiller.

Oh.
Yeah.

Help veg gardeners advice needed!!

I mentioned in a previous post that we had put in a vegetable garden (here and on my personal blog, here).

Heirloom tomato junge

We’ve never grown heirloom tomatoes before, so we didn’t really know what to expect. We’ve had other tomato plants before, so we figured it would be about the same….

I think we’ve misjudged this.

Here are a few photos of the heirloom tomato jungle currently growing in our yard:

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I mentioned in a previous post that we had put in a vegetable garden (here and on my personal blog, here).

Heirloom tomato junge

We’ve never grown heirloom tomatoes before, so we didn’t really know what to expect. We’ve had other tomato plants before, so we figured it would be about the same….

I think we’ve misjudged this.

Here are a few photos of the heirloom tomato jungle currently growing in our yard:

Click to continue reading “Help veg gardeners advice needed!!”