Tag: plants
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How Do I Make My Plants Grow Faster?
The short answer, make sure it has everything it needs to make energy for growing. What is that? I’m glad you asked!
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Garden Update 7/7
I forgot to tell you I would be out of town for the last two weeks. My little sister got married! Congratulations to Kristen and her new husband Kevin! It was ridiculously hot in southern California while we were there. Over 100 degrees for most of the trip. Tom tells me that it was hot…
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Loving List
Things I am Loving This Week – This awesome article about personal creativity and blogging – Slushies made with my Magic Bullet, the greatest blender on earth. Just blend ice with fruit and juice until you have a Slushie! – Homemade Apricot Jam – Taking a walk and finding a few gorgeous horses living down…
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Growing Growing Garden
The garden is moving along beautifully. We are harvesting a couple tiny sweet strawberries every other day. I’m picking radishes almost daily as well. Our daughter loves to eat the peas right off the vine so none have made it back to the kitchen yet. They go straight from the vine into her mouth. I love…
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Around the Yard
Have your allergies been bad this year? Ours are horrible! I don’t know if it’s the climate in Sonoma County or if this is just a bad pollen year, but we have been suffering big time. I bought a new allergen hepa filter vacuum and it has helped a lot already. I didn’t realize how…
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Our Backyard Vegetable Garden
My first vegetable garden was grown out of necessity. Tom and I had just moved 350 miles from our So Cal hometown to UC Santa Cruz’s family housing. We were broke. Flat broke. Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches broke. Typical starving students. After a few months of chicken drumsticks, PB&Js and bananas I decided…
Shoots and Roots 