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Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Moving My Tomato Seeds Into Peat Pots

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The little sprouts are ready to go into the seed starting medium now! :-)
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Starting My Tomato Seeds Indoors

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It is that time of year again!  Once more I am using "Byron B's Weak Tea" method. I did this last year and nearly every se...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

How To Create A Morel Mushroom Habitat and Plant Morel Spawn

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Morel mushrooms are a rare delicacy.  Like truffles, they have their own unique flavor that is nothing like the usual mushrooms that can...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Planning This Years Garden & Reviewing Last Year's

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In which I talk about the things I learned last year: what worked (Deer Netting!!!!) and what didn't (Oddly colored Heirloom Tomatoe...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Introducing... Pecan Corner on You Tube! Canning, Cooking, Southern Food and Budget Abundance

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As Paul has gotten better, he is now feeling like doing more even though he is still mostly house-bound. He has watched a lot of You Tube du...
Friday, August 8, 2014

How To Make Fried Green Tomatoes, Served With Cream Gravy

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We had fried green tomatoes and fried chicken livers for supper the other evening. Oh and cream gravy. I make livers fairly often but h...
Monday, July 14, 2014

SUCCESS!!!! Beautiful Heirloom Tomatoes

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I set a goal last Winter, in the cold, here at home looking after my husband in his slow and steady recovery from a life-saving surgery,...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Tomato Vines Loaded with Green Fruit: Heirloom "Costoluto Genovese"

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I have only picked a couple of ripe tomatoes so far, but the vines are all full of green fruit. This variety I grew from seed that I ...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Mid June Garden Update: Chard, Squash, Onion Braids, and Waiting For Tomatoes!

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I think the rumors that this is finally an El Nino year may prove true. God has been watering my garden every week for about a month no...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

In The Garden After 8 Inches of Rain - and the Deer Fence is Still Working!

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We have had torrential rains for the past few days. It has been wonderful - all the tanks and ponds are filling up, the trees and gardens...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Raising Tomatoes, Part 4: Folklore: Planting Before Good Friday & Rain on Easter

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This year, I set a goal of learning how to raise tomatoes successfully. I am part way there, as I raised about a hundred plants from see...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Starting Tomato Plants From Seed, Step 2: Moving Sprouts From Paper into Pots

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 This is Part 2. The first post ( click here to read it ) explains how to start the seed using weak tea, paper towels and baggies. This p...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

It's Time! Here's One Way To Start Tomato Seeds

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My "determined to learn" project this year is How to Grow Tomatoes. I have not had any luck with tomatoes - poor yields (if any...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

January Update on My Winter Garden: Things Learned So Far

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 I had a lot of fun planting my first "winter garden" this year. Then, Paul got sick. But God was so good that He watered my g...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

How a Thank You Note Made My Day

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Since the new Texas Cottage Food Law took effect September first, I have been baking bread to sell at our local Farmer's Market. It ...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Plowing For a Winter Garden, and Getting Ready Now for Spring Planting

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 We are going to raise a garden again. The deer and grasshoppers ate everything I planted this year, but we are going to fence out the d...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Linocuts and Letterpress: Printing Seed Packets and Cottage Food Labels

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I've been having fun this year in the print shop, turning out seed packets for saving seeds in.  The Pecan Corner Press is a hobby, a...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranchette....

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....Normal Life goes on for the authorette at Pecan Corner.  Our tiny rural town has never had a sewer system - everyone used septic tan...