Taking the effort to clean up the vegetable garden beds in fall makes it very easy to begin growing the following spring. I have mixed emotions each autumn as the gardening season comes to a close. Since our growing season is short, there is usually a preserving marathon in September and most of my time…
Gardening
Most of the activity that happens here at Grow a Good Life is gardening related as we attempt to grow as much of our own food in our Southern Maine, Zone 5 garden.
Weekly Harvest: September 28, 2015
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Our first light frost snuck in early Sunday morning. It came as a surprise as frost was not predicted for my area. I noticed the grass was crunching as I let the dog out and walked to the chicken coop to release the girls into their pen. Then I saw the frostiness on the roof…
4 Ways to Share the Garden Harvest Bounty
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Gardeners by nature are very generous and love to share their garden harvest bounty with others. Visit a gardener during the growing season and you are bound to come home with bags of fresh produce from their garden. Every growing season is different. You plan the garden and estimate what you need to grow for fresh…
Weekly Harvest: September 21, 2015
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Welcome to another weekly harvest update. Fall is in the air and the nights are getting cooler. The garden is winding down but not before giving up its final offerings. The abundant apple harvest continues. We enjoyed a delicious apple pie this week. I have canned several cases of applesauce and jelly so far. This…
Weekly Harvest: September 14, 2015
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This week, the focus on preserving the harvest continued. Each day I was faced with tomatoes and apples and had to decide which to process. I am amazed at the amount of tomatoes that the garden produced this year. It certainly makes up for the tomato deficit experienced last year due to late blight taking down…
Weekly Harvest: September 7, 2015
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It has been a busy week in the kitchen preserving the harvest. I spend most mornings weighing, cutting, prepping, straining, and simmering. Our days have been warm, but our nights are much cooler. I’ve been canning late evenings so the house can air out and cool down overnight. This is proving to be an amazing…
6 Tips to Prepare for Canning Season
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One of the delights of summer is the abundance of fresh, organic, homegrown vegetables that are available. The advantage of growing your own garden is that you can harvest and enjoy your vegetables when they are at peak flavor and nutrition. My goal each year is to try to grow enough food for fresh eating…
Weekly Harvest: August 31, 2015
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The garden is at its peak now and several baskets of harvest bounty are collected every day. The kitchen counter is overrun with ripening tomatoes, peppers, and summer squash. It is so nice to walk through the garden to see what is ready and decide on what to pick for dinner. Here are some of…
Weekly Harvest: August 24, 2015
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This week the tomatoes are coming in at a much quicker pace, along with pole beans, peppers, lettuce, and summer squash. Each morning, I walk out to the garden with harvest basket in hand and I work my way though the garden picking whatever is ripe. Most days look like this: I’ve been harvesting the…
13 Quick Growing Vegetables for Your Fall Garden
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Instead of watching your summer crops struggle to ripen the last few fruits, pull them out and plant some of these quick growing vegetables for your fall garden. The vegetable garden shines in summer with abundant harvests. As fall approaches, most of the summer crops begin to wind down. Cooler nighttime temperatures and diminishing sunlight…
Weekly Harvest: August 17, 2015
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Garden harvests increased this week with daily pickings of tomatoes, summer squash, and pole beans along with a few peppers, potatoes, and lettuce. Juliet is far ahead of the rest of the paste tomatoes with a few Heinz 2653 coming a long. Most are eaten up quickly. I was surprised to see a few cucumbers…