Starting a Garden with Kids

‘Tis the season!  Spring is “sprunging” (it changes its mind from time to time) and it’s time to start planning for our little backyard garden.  This will be our fourth year to garden!  So crazy to look back on the first year that we built the raised bed with our boys! I thought this might …

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Square Foot Gardening: Keeping It Growing

We’ve commenced our 3rd year in backyard square foot gardening! We still don’t entirely know what we’re doing, but it’s a fun experiment each year.  And while it’s a little work to keep it going, the benefits are well worth the family effort! Fresh organic produce Backyard convenience Learning about plant growth from seed to …

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Creamy Cucumber Salad and Other Refreshing Cucumber Recipes for the Summer

Our little square foot garden is producing an abundance of cucumbers, along with other produce that I will update you on soon. Although I love munching on a raw cucumber, sometimes you have to dress them up a little. I love this Creamy Cucumber Salad recipe for just that –  It’s creamy, refreshing, and flavorful! …

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Square Foot Gardening: How to Plant Seeds {Video}

This past week we completed Round #2 of Planting in our Square Foot Vegetable Garden. Our Round #1 of lettuce, peas, carrots, spinach, and onions are off to a great start. Thankfully, the rain held off for just long enough to plant the rest of the seeds and starters. I’ve been such a lazy gardener …

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Planting a Square Foot Vegetable Garden

Since I last posted about planning a Square Foot Garden, I’ve “fielded” so many questions about our little backyard garden both in person and via The Interwebz. People, I’m a NOVICE. (Read: I don’t really know what I’m doing.) However, I’m happy to share the little that I know, and most of that is just …

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Planning A Square Foot Vegetable Garden

Last year was our first shot at gardening, and it was more successful than we expected.  We had a great taste of a variety of vegetables, and a bountiful supply of others.  Today we are picking out seeds for our first Square Foot Garden.  We used a raised garden last year and followed several of …

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You Say Tomato I Say…

Tom-ah-toe  WHAT DO I DO WITH THEM??? Our one little Roma Tomato plant has took on a massive form.  Apparently, it heard there were multiples in the family and felt the need to compete.  Every time I step outside I pick about this many… And there’s so many more left on the vine.  I have …

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Veggie Tales In Real Life

Our little garden has been good to us.  We started off with a nice little harvest of sweet peas.  Most of them didn’t even make it inside the house. They were eaten raw off the vine by my little snackers. Next we had several servings of green beans.  And now we’re picking sweet corn and …

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