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We’ve Had Fun Growing Tomatoes Over The Years
Next to potatoes I would have to say tomatoes are the veggie or fruit I enjoy the most and have since I was a kid following dad through the garden taste testing everything. Nothing like a fresh juicy...
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Lazy Saturday Morning in Moncton, New Brunswick
I love early mornings before Moncton is cluttered with the sounds of traffic. I enjoy getting up with the birds and listening to them chirping at one another while I sip a hot fresh coffee. It wasn’t...
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A Few Ways You Can Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
For the first 50 years of my life I never thought about the greenhouse gases produced getting the food we eat to our table. Not until Jenny and I watched a Food Network Canada series called the 100...
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Made Our First Batch of Refrigerator Pickles With Cucumbers And Onions
Growing up on a farm my foster Mom preserved as much of the summer produce as she could to keep us going through the entire winter months and right into the next summer. A huge part of what was...
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Bought A Few Packs of Seed Tape, Now I’m Making My Own
I was walking through Canadian Tire heading to the garden center. I always like to check the seed racks to see if there is anything new I want to try growing. This day I found a seed rack that had seed...
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Had Nachos For Supper Using Tomatoes From Our Garden
It’s so nice to use produce from the vegetable garden and tonight just a few minutes before supper I went out and picked enough tomatoes for Nachos. It will be so nice when the green, red and hot...
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Our Son Steve Wants Me To Mail Him A Pumpkin Pie
I laughed when our son Steve saw my Facebook post about our pumpkins changing to bright pumpkin orange and asked me to ship him a homemade pumpkin pie, which is his favourite kind of pie. This was the...
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Removing The First Tree Blocking Shading Our Vegetable Garden
As soon as I realized the trees along our east facing property fence had grown tall enough to block the sun from our veggie garden I knew I was going to have to either remove the trees or move the...
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First Day Back To School And It’s Pouring Rain
We haven’t had a lot of rain this summer but today we are getting plenty of rain. So it wasn’t surprising to see how many parents chose to drive their kids to school on the first day, rather than...
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Making Some Yellow Pear Tomato Chutney
Every day I get up eager to see what’s going on in our vegetable garden. It’s usually still dark out when I get up so first I have my first coffee or two. What a great way to start any day. I love...
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Canning Our First Garden Fresh Salsa Today
I’m a bit nervous today as it’s the first time I’ve tried to make and preserve salsa for a tasty treat come winter. I must say that my minds eye doesn’t see it lasting until winter. I think I even lost...
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I Had Given Up Having Red Cayenne Peppers
I started cayenne peppers from seed last spring and when they were hardy enough I planted them in my vegetable garden. As soon as they started producing peppers I started eating them and cooking with...
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A Spectacular Moncton Sunrise
I’ve been hearing we are in for a windy rain storm so this morning I was prepared to see the sky filled with dark clouds and everything blowing around. It wasn’t quite daylight yet but I could only see...
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Went For A Walk Today To See Which Trees Are Changing Colour
The sunrise over Moncton was gorgeous this morning. Great day for a walk to see if any trees are changing into their fall colours. It was just six degrees Celsius so I had to wear a sweater. The wind...
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Picked More Than Eight More Cups Of Yellow Pear Tomatoes For More Chutney
Holy crap, tomorrow is the first day of fall and I haven’t had enough summer yet. Over the past week I’ve noticed the mornings have been getting a little cooler. Just a degree or two a day and before I...
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Showy Sedum: Autumn Joy: Jenny’s Joy
We had a lot of bumble bees in our home garden this summer, more than any other year we’ve had our gardens. The bee on the left wasn’t alone as they were all over our Autumn Joy. It was really chilly...
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Our Beans Are Now Has-Beans But I’m Saving Next Years Seeds
Well the beans are all but done for this year. Jenny really seemed to enjoy the beans we planted in our vegetable garden this year. Every time she went outside she was munching on beans, especially the...
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Used The Rest of The Tomatoes For Tomato Sauce
I have to say that tomatoes make me happy. My brother John couldn’t eat tomatoes as they seemed to be too acidic and his lips and mouth would be raw, so I had to eat all the tomatoes he couldn’t eat....
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