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In so many ways, this has been the year of the mushroom for us. We successfully began growing our own mushrooms this year, and then it rained, and rained, and rained all summer. Not so great for the garden, but amazing for mushroom hunting and harvesting.
If you have a mushroom lover on your list, here are some great ideas for gift giving.
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We are mushroom lovers in this house, and we both forage and grow our own mushrooms at times. And one of our favorite ways to enjoy them is in cream of mushroom soup. We also like to have healthy, homemade meals ready to eat on days when there’s no time to cook. I do freeze this soup, but right now freezer space is at a premium. That’s why I also can cream of mushroom soup base.
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Yes, gardening is definitely exercise and can help to keep us fit. But today I’m concentrating on getting fit before gardening season hits so that you can prevent injury and have more energy for all those spring tasks in the garden.Continue Reading
Welcome to my Pennsylvania garden! Be sure to scroll to the bottom to get a tour of 11 other gardens. How fun is that?
The June garden, for the most part, is a young garden. While the cool weather plants like onions, peas and broccoli have been in the ground for a month or two, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and okra were planted just a few short weeks ago.Continue Reading
May and June traded places this year. May was dry and warm for the most part, and yet we couldn’t get our warm weather crops planted because we had occasional night-time freezing temperatures right up until the end of the month.
June has been on the cool side, especially the first half of the month, and has rained for at least a part of the day 4 or 5 days a week.
Neither month has made gardening easy. That’s not really different from any other year – they all have their challenges.
We live on about a quarter acre, and so we use all of our yard for gardening, including the front where we grow dwarf apple trees, raspberries, comfrey, squash, calendula, and spring bulbs.Continue Reading
Ask a kindergartener if it’s possible to grow to a pumpkin pie.
I LOVE this age. They are old enough to understand, and young enough to still be magical in their thinking. And while they get that a pie won’t grow in the garden, they’ll still likely answer a resounding yes to your question.
Especially after reading to them from the Scholastic Reader, Grow a Pumpkin Pie.Continue Reading