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June 2011

P. Allen Smith’s Container Garden Contest

June 22, 2011
My Submission

There is still time to enter the contest! Deadline for submissions is July 1, 2011 (Extented to) July 30, 2011. To enter, visit the P. Allen Smith’s Platinum collection page. Choose your favorite Proven Winner’s plants and put together a container. It’s free to register on the site, then snap a picture and submit it. [...]

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How to Can Fresh Picked Garden Tomatoes

June 16, 2011
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Canning tomatoes? The very thought of canning anything causes me a little (ok more than a little) discomfort. Why you ask? I worry about eating something contaminated. What if I make a mistake and the food goes bad? Would I be able to tell? I once heard about a whole family that died from eating canned [...]

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Vegetable Garden Update: Spring 2011

June 7, 2011
Spring 2011 - Raised Bed Vegetable Garden

The vegetable garden is struggling this year. We are dealing with an unprecedented drought this spring and now temperatures have hit 105 for the past two days. Fortunately my tomatoes set fruit months earlier and are now ripening. I’ve opted to pick these as soon they blush to get them out of the heat and [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Blue Jay’s Got the Blues

June 1, 2011
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