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Hello Saturday! Poor Lucy. This is her least favorite time of year. All the big booms and noise from the fireworks really upsets her. Plus I think a big thunderstorm is on the way later this morning. 🙁 On the agenda for today: Pack up orders and mail them off {no mail on Monday}. Read More >>
Yesterday we harvested our first head of lettuce from the garden. 🙂 This year we’re growing the little gem romaine variety in the kitchen garden area between 2 rows of sweet peppers. This is my small way to start Late June Gardening in Coastal Maine – Planting Zone 6a. While I really like using romaine Read More >>
Gardening in Coastal Maine – The Kitchen Garden. From the sky, our little kitchen garden doesn’t look very exciting. But when you’re right smack in the middle of it, the garden looks completely different! 🙂 I think my favorite thing in the garden right now are the cabbages all lined up along the path. My Read More >>
The kitchen garden on May 3rd. The kitchen garden on June 3rd {this morning}. What a difference a month makes! The chives are in full bloom, tomatoes, peppers and cucumber plants are in the ground, the basil seeds have been planted {along the right side of the brick path} and the cabbage, celery and rhubarb Read More >>
Well, I fell off the wagon. Last week I had an appointment down south and was near a Market Basket so I stopped by {without a list}. What started out as a maybe I’ll just stop in for a Boston cream doughnut and some produce turned into a summer stock up on pickety bit items. Read More >>
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