Trip to Local Greenhouses

Last weekend we went shopping for the garden, first stop Rosemeyers. They have an amazing selection of everything and many greenhouses. We bought 4 large Better Boy tomato plants with flowers and tomatoes already on them. We also bought 8 Roma plants because we can a lot for winter and make salsa. We bought Jalapeno, Cayenne, and Habanero pepper plants for our spicy jams we make sell at the farmers market. I also bought one eggplant and one summer squash because my husband doesn't really like either one. We also purchased some Basil and oregano. Next stop was Adopt-A-Plant where we visited with the owner, we know her from local farmers markets, we bought Lemon basil, and cilantro there. Now to get everything in the garden.

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Garden is Tilled

Here it is finally tilled. We went much bigger this year its about 900 square feet. I have an area against the house 16 ft by 5 ft for just cucumbers. Also another area about 16 ft by 4 feet for onions. Im so excited and I cant wait to move all these plants outside.

I will post more pics as it comes along more.

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The Seeds Have Sprouted

We planted lots of things for our garden this year including tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, lettuce, and cucumbers. We still have other things to plant directly in the garden including green beans.

We tilled about 900 square feet for the main garden and 16 feet by 5 feet for just cucumbers. Another section the same size, this section will be used for growing lettuce and onions.

We also tilled up about 40 feet by 5 feet for flowers that I will sell at the Farmer's Market.

Enjoy the pics and get out and support local farmers by attending a Farmer's Market in your area.

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Northside Farmers Market

The Northside farmer's market found a place for us for the winter. We are located at the North Presbyterian Church auditorium from 4-7:30 on Wednesdays. The church has been so wonderful to offer a place to sell our artisan goods along with fresh eggs, pork, honey, apples, jams, herbs and amazing coffee. Please come check us out we will be a that location until May then back to Hoffner park on Hamilton Avenue. Support local artisans and farmers and visit us at the market.

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Look What We Made!

Our garden was overflowing with cucumbers so we decided it was time to make some dill pickles. We picked them fresh yesterday sliced some and made some dill pickle spears. We put dried red peppers and a clove of garlic in the jar to make them nice and spicy.

We also made blackberry and strawberry jam from berries from a local farmer here.

We will keep some for ourselves and sell some at the local Farmer's Market.

I had some of the blackberry jam this morning and it was wonderful.

Here are some pictures of us canning the pickles and making the jam.

Enjoy.
..~~~Peace and Bead Creative~~~..