Tag: vegetables
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We Have a Garden!
Back in Nashville, Javier spent an immense amount of time and effort building up our garden from summer 2011 after we moved in right up until fall 2015 when we moved away. Every year he’d add a raised bed and fence it all in again with chicken wire. He’d come home from work or class…
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Garden update
It’s been awhile since we gave you all a garden update. Soon we will also write an update on the landscape and the flowerbed, but for now this is what we have going on in the veggie garden: Hace tiempo que no actualizamos a todos en como va la huerta. Pronto tambien haremos una actualizacion…
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See you next year garden!
Fall is almost here and the weather and pests have conspired against my garden. In the last update we told you about our attempt to rescue all our pepper plants and the harvest of the sweet potatoes. We discovered that squash bugs were the reason why our plants died, but luckily we got the peppers…
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Garden Update: Sweet Potato Treasure …. Arrrr!!!
The summer gardening season is almost over at Los Rodriguez farm (we wish we had a farm…but oh well!). We had fun working in the garden, seeing things pop up, eating fresh veggies, chopping herbs, fighting mildew and uninvited “guests”. We refused to use pesticides or anything that could add toxins to our plants, so…
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Gma Joan’s Pesto magic
One of the most productive plants in our garden is the basil. It is really great to see it grow big and fast and to be able to pick a leaf when I go to check the plants and smell the amazing aroma of this fresh Italian basil. I like to chop a leaf and…
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Garden update…
The garden is growing and starting to yield some tasty veggies for us. There’s nothing big yet but at least we have started to see growth and fruits. I was worried about one of our beds since it seemed like the plants did not want to grow there, but now everything is getting big and…
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Eat your beets!
Since I was a kid beets have called my attention – it’s probably because my mom made them so tasty, but also because of the deep purple color they have and their sweet flavor that mixes perfectly with a lemon, olive oil, and salt dressing. Since I moved to the U.S. from Chile the only…
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Garden Update: The Transplant
This garden of ours is Javier’s baby – he dreamed it up, build the beds, fenced them in with chicken wire (which I now know is really hard to do alone!), bought the plants and researched the soil etc. etc. and did it all on his own. The only part of this that I can…
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Growing from seed!
To continue with the gardening theme (see previous posts on starting the garden here and what we planted here), one evening last week we saw a tower of seeds at the grocery store and decided to try growing a few plants from scratch. All of the rest of the plants we have were already in…
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We are growing our own food – The set up
We’ve tossed around the idea of starting a garden since we moved into our house, but with so many other projects spring and summer flew by last year so we had to wait until it was time to plant again. This is our very first garden – neither of us has any experience growing plants…
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