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Mother Earth’s Garden

Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category

February 1st, 2008

Growing Organically For Market

I found a three great resources for anyone thinking about going commercial with their garden this summer.
1. Market Organic Gardening ~ Going Commercial discusses the basics of organic gardening for market, and what you should expect.
2. Market Gardening: A Startup Guide is an excellent resource for anyone thinking about gardening commercially. The article talks […]

By linette -- 1 comment

September 18th, 2007

50 Vegetable Recipes to Keep Warm This Season

Fall is in the air, which means harvest time for many vegetable gardeners. But it also sadly means only a couple more months of outdoor gardening. With colder weather approaching, and an abundance of veggies from the garden, here are some must try vegetable recipes to keep warm this season.

Cashew Green Beans

Onion […]

By Rebecca -- 9 comments

September 11th, 2007

Veggie Art

Now this is just cool! I’m not sure I would have the time to do all of this, but it might be neat for a big get together. My only question is do you eat it, or just let it sit there and look pretty? It is definitely better than the vegetable […]

By Rebecca -- 0 comments

July 28th, 2007

Baby Corn

It’s baby corn time! Sadly, I didn’t plant enough corn to afford to harvest a few early this year. I’ll be dreadfully short on corn at the end of this season if I took any early ears. But that doesn’t stop me from sharing a great recipe! Baby corn is harvested from sweet corn […]

By Rebecca -- 1 comment

July 7th, 2007

Knee High by the Fourth of July

They say that in order to ensure having a good harvest before the first frost, your corn should be knee high by the Fourth of July. This picture was taken three days ago. Do you think I made it?
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By Rebecca -- 0 comments

June 26th, 2007

Giant Tomatoes

I can honestly say that I have never seen tomato plants get this big. I went to my vegetable garden after I came back from vacation to find that it had grown to four feet tall! I had to tie it up to the fence since the stakes I had were only two […]

By Rebecca -- 1 comment

June 21st, 2007

First Fruits

This little Cherry Tomato is the first vegetable from my garden! This is the first vegetable patch I’ve planted and tended myself. Usually I’m only helping in someone else’s garden. Not quite sure what to do with this tomato. I suppose I should eat it, but that seems harsh. I […]

By Rebecca -- 2 comments

May 24th, 2007

Plant Vandalism

I went to my garden a couple of days ago to discover that one of my tomato plants had been brutally masecred. It had no nibble marks of any kind, so I knew it wasn’t an animal. I immediately blamed it on the teenagers in the neighborhood that trample through the yard at […]

By Rebecca -- 0 comments

May 19th, 2007

Hard Work Paid Off

This little lima bean plant was the first thing to come up in my vegetable patch! I was beginning to despair, with two weeks of no rain and no sign of growth, I was wondering if hauling water everyday was really worth it. But three days ago I spotted this little plant peaking […]

By Rebecca -- 0 comments

February 17th, 2007

Zucchini blues

Every vegetable gardener knows that if you leave a small zucchini on the plant for a couple of days it will be a marrow. If you are mounting a harvest festival display, big zucchini look very impressive, but for eating, they are hopeless.
There are recipes for stuffed marrow but in my opinion life is […]

By Margaret -- 2 comments

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