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Plants in my Garden: tomatoes, potatos, sweet potatos, green beans, carrots, beets, broccoli, cabbage, sqash- hubbard, butternut and zuchini, watermelon, peppers-hot and sweet, basil, parsley, rhubarb, asparagus
Favorite Aspect of Gardening: getting outside in the sunshine, and having something to show for my efforts
If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: in my kitchen canning.....
Occupation: spoiled domestic diva
Twiggybet1
Member Since: 8/8/2007
Last Seen: 1 days, 1 hour ago
About Twiggybet1
For the last 20 years, my husband and I have been planting a vegetable garden every year. I'm not so sure the work is equitably split; we both believe we do the lion's share of the work. I definitely spend more time in the garden, while he does the really heavy difficult things such as till.
We have certain staples that we always plant, like tomatoes and green beans, and we like to try some different and unusual vegetables every year. Over the years, we have planted purple string beans, various colored carrots (red, purple, yellow and white along with the usual orange) white cucumbers, yellow tomatoes, and speckled watermelon. We've planted carrots shaped like pingpong balls, and zuchini shaped like pool balls. We've planted some vegetables that we had not seen in the grocery store before (but they seem to make it to the produce section a couple of years after we try them).
Every year, our garden seems to get larger. We started with a small plot about 10` x 15` about 20 years ago. Our garden this year must be about 30` x 60` but I can't be sure, I haven't actually measured it.
Although we've been gardening for years, we don't consider ourselves experts at all. Some of the vegetables we have planted have done really well, and others not so good. We tend to keep planting the successful ones again in following years, and save room for new experiments. But isn't it all just one great big experiment, really?
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Recent Blog Entries
Boy, time flies when you're busy...It's been almost 3 weeks since I blogged, and longer since I updated on the garden. What's been going on in the garden? Well, around the 6th or so of this month, I put up boards to blanch the celery. It appears t...
Cooking with Twiggybet
Okay, so I know I'm not a Rachel Ray or Martha Stewart, but I thought it might be fun to share some of the things I do with my garden produce. I was so excited to finally get enough rhubarb this year to make a pie USING MY OWN!!! Rhubarb pie ha...
7-29-08 garden update
We are getting a nice assortment of veggies right now. Here is a picture of what I picked on Monday: The peas I planted in May are for the most part finished, so I planted more for a fall harvest along the pea fence. Most of the old vines a...
7-23-2008 Update on garden
Well, we've had thunderstorms nearly every day for the past week or so. I haven't had to use the sprinkler in quite some time I'm happy to say. We have also had some very humid, hot days. I have been running the A/C nearly every day. Today, it wa...
Where to begin?
*sigh* I need to share. I've had a couple of strange days.... Yesterday, my daughter had her first automobile accident. She's o.k., but it sure gave me a scare. She was on her way to school, and stopped for a light and the driver behind her hi...
