Archive for June, 2009

Late June. Harvesting plenty of zipper peas, okra, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant. We’ve got Sweet 100 tomato plants almost reaching up to the second story and summer is far from over. Lots of melon blooms on the cantaloupe vines. We were fortunate with lots of rain up until now. Every day is [...]

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The amazing Green Pea Layered Salad with bacon, lettuce, mayo, boiled eggs, it is TOO GOOD to NOT try!
This is one of my most FAVORITE recipes of all time. I have been making it for years. I have several variations.
The [...]

I enjoy cooking with ginger. It is a little expensive to buy it fresh at the store, but if you store it properly it will last you some time. And it is wonderful to cook with. It has a fabulous taste and a wonderful aroma.
When I buy fresh ginger, I divide it up into [...]

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Quick and easy Cheese Garlic Bread.
What you’ll need:

1 large garlic clove
butter
Shredded Mexican Five Cheese Blend (or colby/cheddar)
olive oil spray
one loaf of french bread (I prefer the Pepperidge Farm Hot and Crusty French Loaves)

Tear off a sheet of foil large enough to [...]

I love the idea of organic gardening. I try as hard as possible to only garden organically. I love using organic fertilizer in my vegetable and flower gardens. I am no saint, and occasionally I find it necessary for some reason or other to use other products, but primarily I believe in [...]

Daisy Mae and I have been together a long time. Daisy Mae is “My Mule.”
LB’s daddy used a real mule to plow. But times have changed, so I use Daisy Mae.

Daisy Mae is the most reliable “mule” I ever used. She is a Yard Machine. Sometimes I get really tuckered out after a full day [...]

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I have one tomato variety, an heirloom known as Mountain Pride, that produces some really nice tomatoes that are crack resistant, disease resistant, and determinate so this is one variety that works well for container gardening.
I noticed it was the only variety in my vast array [...]

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I noticed something on my tomatoes in the blossom clusters.
I have seen this before, yet never had the time to find the cause. I tried to Google a cause and a remedy, but I could not seem to come across the right keywords or search words [...]

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