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Delancey :: bar and kitchen Yesterday wasn’t a big birthday, but it was my birthday nonetheless and sometimes you have to celebrate even the unexciting years in a BIG way. Hence the fun fest that was the last 4 days… On Friday, while I was finishing up a paper at work, Jen, Jeanne and [...] I was at Target the other night picking up a couple of things and found this great box. Just what I needed to get the seeds out of the shoe boxes they’ve been living in. In it are all of this year’s seeds, alphabetized by type. It’s always amazing to me that a) I can fill [...] The seeds that I ordered have arrived and I’ve been sorting and organizing them into a new box with the seeds from 2008 and 2009. But the biggest part of planning the garden every year is actually figuring out what is going where. I actually do this before I order seeds so that I have [...] One of my New Year’s resolutions is to relax about the garden this year. To plan and plant for our real lives, not our ideal lives, and for what we really want to eat. In 2009, I planned and planted a garden that assumed I had just as much time (and water) to devote to it [...] Got you, didn’t I? So there really are Hookers in our garden, it’s just that they’re actually ears of corn, not streetwalkers. The ears are gorgeous, but unfortunately we waited too long to pick them and they’re quite starchy. Ah well, the horses and the chickens are enjoying them an ear at a time when [...] My grandfather passed away almost 10 years ago (wow it doesn’t seem that long!) and left behind a legacy that we’re all living in our own way. In cleaning out somewhere last spring my mom found an assortment of squash and melon seeds that he’d saved many years ago. She sent me a few and [...] If you’ve been wondering where the garden photos are, I have to tell you that I haven’t taken many this year. Partly because it’s so weedy that I’m embarrassed and partly just because it’s been such harsh light. The garden is feeding us, but it’s not the bounty of last year. I think it’s a [...] |
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