For a couple of months in the fall and early winter we were running back and forth frequently between our new place and our community garden plot–a good half-hour drive–to harvest all the hardy, remaining veggies. The brussels sprouts were the last thing we pulled this year–in early December. After a poor brussels sprout year […]
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Goodbye Community Garden
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The Patience of Kale
By mid-November, I was starting to feel a little bit guilty about the kale. It had been quietly patient, waiting around in our garden without a fuss for me to finish dealing with the pears and the chard and all of the other higher-maintenance vegetables (not to mention all of the moving and boxes and […]
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Strawberry Picking at Last!
It’s strawberry season! It has been for a couple of weeks now actually, and I’d been itching to pick berries since the fields opened, but I had other commitments that I had to focus on first (primarily prepping for and taping a jam-making segment for 207, which aired this evening on WCSH channel 6 here […]
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Eelgrass for the Garden
This past weekend, Ben and I and the boys headed out to collect eelgrass for the garden. Eelgrass looks kind of like seaweed, but, as I mentioned in last years post about gathering eelgrass, it’s technically a flowering plant (though you’d never know it by looking at it) that grows in salt water in shallow, marshy […]
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The Big Planting Weekend, part II
With my thoughts on the less tangible aspects of our big Memorial day planting weekend in my last post, I didn’t quite get to the practical parts of our days. So, I’m back to fill you in a bit on that now. (Yes, I realize I’m a bit late with this post–I’m still back on […]
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The Big Planting Weekend, part I
Memorial Day weekend is always the time that Ben and I do the vast majority of the planting in our vegetable gardens. We don’t make other plans, and pretty much for the whole three days we focus on not much else but getting it done. The way it usually works around here is that Ben […]
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Getting the Gardens Ready!
Last week we began our annual springtime push to get the gardens ready for planting. No matter how much we plan ahead, there’s always a lot of work to be done in what seems like a fairly short period of time as the Memorial day weekend nears. (Memorial day weekend is when we always do […]
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Family Fiddleheading
Since the fiddleheads weren’t up yet when we checked on one of our favorite picking spots the weekend before last, it was clearly time for another visit to the spot this past weekend. We’d had a few days of good sun, and if our educated guesses were correct, the picking would be perfect. Almost every […]
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Our winter compost experiment
Have you ever been tempted to ignore your compost pile in the winter time because snow made it difficult to get to? Well, I have, and this past winter was particularly challenging because we had such a huge amount of snow. Our compost pile lives behind our garage, and we access it by a […]
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Fiddleheads are Up!
It’s fiddlehead season here in Maine again! This is usually the first foraging outing of the spring for us, and it’s always exciting when the time grows near. Along with the opening of tiny, tender new buds on trees, and the subtle shift to the mild, damp, earthy smell and feel of early spring […]
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