Category: Garden

February Garden Updates

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If you haven’t followed us on YouTube then you are missing out on what we’ve accomplished in our garden over the past month. We have been busy little bees getting ready for our new garden season. The cold had killed a lot of our plants so we took advantage of that and replaced most of our beds with some new metal beds. You can find links for those HERE:

New Garden Design and Product Links

We don’t have our tractor anymore so that meant we had a lot of digging to do and boy am I glad that part is over! There was a lot of hard work and a lot of sore muscles! We just did a little each day and we are finally finished. I’ve started planting out a few things, but I am waiting until mid-March to get the more sensitive plants out.

Here’s a video to show you some of what we’ve been up to:

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Special Holiday Meals: Apple Themed Holidays

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There are several holidays that revolve around apples, so I have made a list of our favorite recipes here:

Apple Fun Facts

Beverages:

Ms. Shirley’s Hot Apple Cider

Breads:

Chocolate Chip Applesauce Muffins

Jams/Jellies/Sauces

Apple Butter

Apple Pie Filling For Canning

Crockpot Applesauce

Easy Crockpot Apple Butter

Cakes:

Angel Food Cake

Apple Dapple Cake

Applesauce Cake

Apple Sonker

Desserts

Apple Crisp in a Crockpot

Apple pie filling

Apple Sonker

Easy Apple Dumplings

Fried Apple Pies

Perfect Apple Pies

There are so many ways to use apples, but they are also a great snack just as they are!

Special Holiday Meals: National Potato Day and Cook a Sweet Potato Day

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Did you know that August 19th was set aside to honor the humble spud? February 22nd is also set aside for sweet potatoes.

Fun Facts About Potatoes

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New Garden Design and Product Links

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This weather has been wreaking havoc across the country, and our area has not been spared. Florida has been seeing some historic lows, snow, and some areas south of us have even been experiencing colder temps than we’ve had here at our home… CRAZY!!! The winds have also been pretty rough and have caused a bit of damage.

If you are looking for links to the garden products… go to the bottom of the post!

Then the groundhog said that there’ll be six more weeks of winter??? Well, we took care of that groundhog… just kidding, but we did have a good meal to celebrate Groundhog Day.

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Seasonal Food Preservation Guide

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Many of us drool over the beautifully crafted pantries we see on Pinterest or Instagram. They have neatly arranged shelves lined with beautiful canned goods. This doesn’t happen by accident… those jars of proof of lots of hard work that went into growing and preserving each of their contents.

I did a lot of preserving many years ago. I had a garage with custom-built shelves to display our garden’s abundance, but my situation is different now. We dream of a pantry with beautifully stocked shelves, but it hasn’t quite happened yet. I can’t build the pantry today, but I can work on getting some jars filled with delicious food to nourish my family.

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