Kerry’s Garden

After work today I came home and took some really pretty pictures (I thought) of the ripe raspberries and the zinnias. I didn’t check them till now, almost 10 pm, after the raspberries have been picked and frozen and long after the sun has set. As it turns out none of them turned out, all [...]

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You can’t tell but there are 4 rows of green beans here. The far left row of Top Crop beans was just planted 4 days ago and the other three were planted on (Roma II) June 20, (TopCrop) May 26, and (Roma II) May 10 I picked a bunch of beans, mostly from the row [...]

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I planted a row of TopCrop bush beans and harvested one row of Roma IIs today. They were a little large so I made some beans and sausage for lunch. I like this recipe when I’ve let the beans get a little too mature for steaming or stir fry. Basically you clean and snap enough [...]

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I planted another row of Roma II beans today. We have our first batch of zucchini. Sliced, sauteed in a little butter and olive oil with some Herb’N All from Herb’N Renewal This stuff is awesome on green beans too with a little parmesan cheese and slivered almonds. mmmmm

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Planted some (topcrop maybe?) green beans (row 2). (6/7 these came up beautifully and are a couple of inches tall now)

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1 row of Roma beans went in the ground. (6/7 this seed was a couple of years old. Only about half the row came up.)

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Took out batch #2 of beans, tilled and planted spinach, buttercrunch and black seeded simpson lettuce and scarlet globe and cherry belle radishes where they were. There were enough beans for a meal not counting the ones too large to harvest. Batch 3 is coming along nicely. (6/7/05 this was too late for starting lettuce [...]

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