Farmer Dollissa
at Sneer HQ
Category: Vegetable Garden
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Sweet basil Mammoth basil Spicy globe basil Thai basil Last year and early this season I tried to grow basil from seed. Although they’d sprout, they never got much bigger, and didn’t transplant well. We bought some sweet basil plants this year. This month, we went to our local garden store for the first time,…
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Our garden boxes, flowers, herbs, and veggies are covered in snow. Don’t make me go out there!
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I picked this little guy on October 17. Radishes are full of nutritious goodness and help with all sorts of ailments, apparently. I’ll never know because we don’t eat them. Well, not yet. We will figure out some tasty way to eat them, maybe in a soup? In any case, this is the first vegetable…
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These are my favorite sneakers and they are now reserved only for gardening (they are pretty dirty). Since we don’t use any pesticides, and because nature hates us just a little bit, we have lots of bug friends and foes in our garden. Stylishly tucking my pants into my socks keeps me relatively safe from…
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In the past week it’s gone from hot and sunny splendor to frost temperatures at night and today, a windstorm. I probably won’t have any ripe tomatoes anymore this season to pick, so here’s some pictures of our harvest from this summer. We grew large tomatoes, grape tomatoes, and jalapeño peppers. We aren’t really big…
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We cut down all the bamboo along the fence in our yard. It’s beautiful and reminds me of living in Newark, but it was full of mosquitos and we are trying to grow plants where the roots keep springing up. We cut them down to about 4-6inches first, to make it easier to move around.…
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