Category: Gardening
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Okra… the food that keeps on giving
I bought another 10 pounds of fresh picked okra this morning. I spent a couple hours canning half of it and placed the other half in the fridge. We love okra pretty much any way we can get it and I probably will be putting more in the freezer before this season is over. It…
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Another year
….of canning fig preserves came to a close today. I managed 50.5 pints preserves and 6 pint syrup as the final total. That’s a couple pints short from last year but I still have 6 of those pints left so there are plenty. I’m just not certain we will get a second harvest to share…
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Anatomy of fig canning
Today was extremely long, busy, and productive. I can say I’m officially tired! I started the canning process for fig preserves around 10 this morning after harvesting another 10 cups to add to the 54 cups I already had. So 64 cups of figs were hand processed today by Lil ole ME. So very glad…
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Grill time!
Today has been pretty much a do nothing day. Not a bad thing. We slept in….. anything over 7.5 to 8 hours is sleeping in for me. Today I got 9 hours! Picked a few figs, then prepared breakfast while Randy got his morning shower. I’m almost finished with that large knit project and continued…
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Ready or not here they come!
I knew it would be soon. I’ve been monitoring every couple days. Today was a rare moment of ME time while hubby was gone to physical therapy. We are back into our normal north east Alabama summer weather thank goodness. The horrid horrid intense humidity and heat seem to have left the area. So I…
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Scottish Fantasy
I’ve been told I am not your average female because I never have been a shopper and never ever an impulse buyer. My shopping preference is have a list, get in, get out. There are two places I actually do enjoy browsing and that is hardware and landscape shops. I love a proper tool for…
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Mary Todd
I have always loved gardening and house plants and have several very large indoor plants from many years ago. These last two years I’ve taken the time to expand my love of flowers into the landscape around the house. My intent is to create low maintenance high impact perennial gardens and paths out of the…
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