Chrissy was waiting until the weather got warmer before planting vegetables in the raised plant beds. Since the boys and I built her two more, she now has four boxes to populate! We now have room to add cucumbers and bell peppers into the mix. This makes me happy, in a way, because this year we’ll have something other...
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The annual family holiday letter was completed and packed into this year’s batch of Christmas cards, but I wanted to post it to the web site in case anyone who isn’t on our holiday mailing list would like to know what we were up to this year. If you’re not on our Christmas card list, but would like to be, please let...
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The garden has been very good to us over the summer, but the season is over now. There were still some tiny tomatoes, but they won’t grow all the way. Chrissy tore out the remaining plants and we’ll be covering the raised plant beds for the winter soon. We plan on building at least two more raised plant bed boxes next...
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The first vegetable that our raised plant beds produced was a small zucchini. It was only about six inches long, but we didn’t really know how big zucchini were supposed to get. This was our first season using the plant boxes, so we were happy just to have something to show for it. Chrissy chopped it up and put it in...
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We have a tomato factory. Chrissy started out with three tomato plants in the raised plant beds. These have grown over the sides of the plant beds and are producing more tomatoes that we thought possible. We’re starting to wonder what to do with all of these tomatoes. Chrissy got a recipe for making salsa (with extra...
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The vegetable garden is doing better than we had ever hoped. It must be the genetically superior super-soil that we used. The tomatoes are small and green yet, the zucchini are growing well and there are even bell peppers popping out. Chrissy is very proud! It won’t be long before we can actually harvest some...
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Chrissy’s vegetable garden is growing fairly well. The tomato plants are getting really big and the zuchini are actually producing already. It’s the tiniest of little zuchinis growing so far, but that’s amazing considering that we have never gotten anything to grow before. We had practically given up on...
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It has been a while since we set up the raised plant beds in the back yard, but they have remained empty. We didn’t want to put new plants in the beds just to have cold weather kill them off immediately. However, it was nice enough outside this weekend to transfer the plants into their beds. Unfortunately, the seedlings...
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