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Garden

My Garden

July 10, 2010

This is the time of year when all the work in the garden is finally paying off. We have lots of tomatoes and more peppers than we can possible eat. We should have both watermelon and cantaloupe ready in the next few weeks. I am also very excited that the blueberry bushes, and the apple [...]

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Garden Update

July 23, 2009

I don’t have a picture of my garden, but it looks pretty good considering the July heat here in Oklahoma. But here is what we have picked from our garden the last few days. My peppers and cantaloupe are doing really good. I have at least five nine cantaloupes, we picked four last night, in [...]

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Pickled Green Beans

June 24, 2009

Last week I tried something new. I have been picking a lot of green beans from our garden. I was not sure what to do with all of them. After hearing several people talk about pickled or dilly beans, I decided to give them a try. I hope we like them because I now [...]

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My Garden or My Garden Full Of Weeds

May 24, 2009

We have had rain and more rain here in Oklahoma. We had 21 days of rain. Now, it did not rain all day, everyday, but it rained at least some each day, and some days it was heavy rain. What does that much rain do to a garden. It makes it grow, but the problem [...]

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Garden Fresh Lettuce

May 13, 2009

I picked our first lettuce of the year last week. Lettuce is one of my favorite things to grow in the garden. It is so easy to grow. It is one of the quickest things to grow, you get fast results compared to most other things in the garden. It also does not take up [...]

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Why I Garden

April 29, 2009

I keep hearing that more people are gardening this year due to the economy and I believe it. I usually go to two places to get my plants and seeds, usually a garden center and Lowe’s or Wal-Mart. This year I had to go to four stores to find all the things I wanted to [...]

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My Weekend

April 24, 2009

Any guesses on how I am spending my weekend.

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Garden Update

June 29, 2008

I thought I would post some garden pictures. We are currently picking lots of zucchini and cucumbers. We have also picked a few tomatoes and carrots. We are also now getting green peppers and jalapeno peppers. Our lettuce is gone because it does not like all the hot weather. It became very bitter and tough [...]

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First Lettuce of theYear

May 12, 2008

For my first Gratituesday I wanted to post about lettuce and gardening. We picked our first lettuce from our garden this week. It was actually the first thing we have gotten from our garden this year. So I am thankful for homegrown lettuce and our garden. I am so glad that we have the space [...]