Planning has begun for year two of Operation Green Thumb. The operation has never really stopped; we have been growing micro greens and herbs inside all winter. It is now time to map out what the outdoor garden for 2022 will be and when tasks should be preformed. The 2021 outdoor garden was in threeContinue reading “Gardening: Planning 2022”
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Gardening – Preparing For 2022: First Up Onions From Seed
After a winter of micro greens and herbs we turn our attention to getting ready for outdoor gardening. Outdoor gardening in February?! In Wisconsin?! Are we crazy?! Maybe. While the soil in the garden beds will not be ready to work for several weeks, there are a few crops that can be started from seedContinue reading “Gardening – Preparing For 2022: First Up Onions From Seed”
Gardening – Winding Down Outside: The Few, The Hardy
Beth and I spent many of the daylight hours Saturday and half the day Sunday taking down most of the backyard garden. Mostly fruitless bean, pea, tomato and corn plants were pulled from containers and the beds to become compost for the 2022 garden. There are still a few crops left growing in the eachContinue reading “Gardening – Winding Down Outside: The Few, The Hardy”
Cooking – Sauteed Pole Beans : Autumn Garden to Plate
Our autumn planting pole beans are way outproducing the bunch beans that were planted last spring. The bunch beans produced 12 to 24 beans per week. Pole beans? Roughly one pound per week the last two weeks. We had a mild frost last night, it will be interesting to see how temps in the lowContinue reading “Cooking – Sauteed Pole Beans : Autumn Garden to Plate”
Gardening – Late Harvest & Planting: 4th Quarter 2021
Photos of many things still in the garden. What’s not pictured, west side pole beans and cabbage, plus 6 container Brussels sprouts. Plus plans for attempted cold weather crops. When we are in, we are all in. This year has been more experiment than results oriented. With that said, we’ve been very happy with someContinue reading “Gardening – Late Harvest & Planting: 4th Quarter 2021”
Potent Potables – Garden to Glass: Cucumber Mint Martini
Cooking and canning salsa was fun and satisfying. So much so that Beth kept us on the garden to gullet roll with a slightly out of the box way of using fresh mint and cucumber. Beth surprised me Saturday afternoon with martini’s made from fresh mint and a cucumber. Both from our garden. Imagine that!Continue reading “Potent Potables – Garden to Glass: Cucumber Mint Martini”
Cooking – Garden to Canning Jar
Salsa! Easy to make, tasty to eat. Beth thought perhaps a little hot. Perfect for me! One of the many activities we shared this weekend was making and canning salsa from ingredients mainly plucked from our garden. Ingredients included: sweet corn, tomato, onion, green pepper, jalapeno pepper, beaver dam pepper, cilantro, and dried carrot tops.Continue reading “Cooking – Garden to Canning Jar”
Gardening – What Ate Our Sweetcorn!
Part the daily regimen during our 2021 year of Operation Green Thumb is checking on the status of the garden when arriving home each day. Luckily pests have not been a huge issue. We’ve not lost any crops due to a pest all season…until Thursday 9/23/21… Oh sure, we’ve had a few leaves nibbled onContinue reading “Gardening – What Ate Our Sweetcorn!”
Cooking – Simple Jalapeno Poppers: Garden to Plate
We’ve been teasing this Jalapeno Popper recipe for a few of weeks. Here’s the quick and easy recipe via our next door neighbor Karen. Ingredients: 8 Jalapeno Peppers 8 oz Cream Cheese 8 oz Cheddar Cheese (shredded) 1 cup Panko crumbs 1 clove garlic (pressed) 4 tablespoons butter Directions: Cut jalapeno peppers in half andContinue reading “Cooking – Simple Jalapeno Poppers: Garden to Plate”
Cooking – Garden To Table: Tomato Pepper Cucumber Salad
A friend of ours stopped by last night to review our investment and financial health. Once we made a few important decisions concerning investment commitments the subject turned to our garden. We were all hungry and thirsty. R Dub uncorked a bottle of Bordeaux wine and we whipped up a nice fresh produce salad. TheContinue reading “Cooking – Garden To Table: Tomato Pepper Cucumber Salad”
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