Tag: garden

  • Recipe: Homemade Vegetable Soup

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    I have a lot of fresh garden vegetables that I need to use in ways that will last us awhile. I have blanched green beans and I’m preparing to blanch some carrots, but I like to do more creative meal preparation as well. Today I decided to make a vegetable…

  • Garden Vegetable Recipe: Zucchini Bread

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    I have been picking zucchini from my garden for weeks and the fridge is really starting to fill up! I have grilled zucchini and stuffed zucchini and today I got busy making one of my favourite treats, zucchini bread. I made this double chocolate zucchini bread that is shown below…

  • The Vegetable Garden: Week 5

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    Thanks to a lot of rain in the evenings followed by sunshine through the day, my garden is thriving, and so are the weeds. I have been outside pulling weeds at every spare moment and I think I’m winning, but there are still a lot to get rid of. It…

  • Week 1: Building & Planting the Vegetable Garden #vegetablegarden

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    I love fresh grown vegetables, so I am fortunate to have a Mother with a green thumb who guides me through the process of gardening. She helped me build my gardens about five years ago. The ground here is very hard and full of rocks, so we decided the raised…

  • Win a Gardening Prize Pack {Canada}

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    I love my garden, especially when it’s time to pick fresh vegetables from it, but I don’t love the back pain and muscle aches I get from working on it. Here are some tips from the Ontario Chiropractic Association on how to deal with that back pain. This winter has…

  • Week 7: The Vegetable Garden

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    I know I skipped a few weeks on showing the garden, and I think that everything has grown so much that we are beyond weekly comparisons and onto enjoying the fruits of my labour. Look what I found this week… The zucchini plants are thriving! I have so many zucchini…

  • Week 4: The Vegetable Garden

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    We have had a lot of rain this week, so I haven’t spent very much time tending to the garden. I don’t see a huge change from week three, but there is a little bit. I took the cans off of the tomatoes and put them over a couple of…

  • My Vegetable Garden: Week 3

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    My garden has been invaded this week, and our bunny visitor seems to have grown a bit since I saw him last. The kids have been thrilled to see him in the yard every morning, but I’m not quite as excited about it. Despite the snacking, things have been growing…

  • My Garden: Week 2

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    I love watching my garden grow. Last week I shared some pictures from the day I planted it, and just for fun (fun for me anyway!) I’m going to share pictures of my garden each week. Here is a comparison of week 1 to week 2… I put the old…