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Corn Chow a Must Try Sweet and Salty Snack

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Corn Chow a Must Try Sweet and Salty Snack   I just made a new discovery.  This has nothing to do with gardening.  It has everything to do with my sweet tooth.   If you like puppy chow, the tasty snack with rice chex, chocolate, peanut butter, and powdered sugar, you might enjoy this tasty alternative, especially if you love Fritos and Nutella!   For one cereal bowl of the mix here’s what you will need:   2 Tbsp Nutella heated about 30 seconds in microwave until warm and gooey.  Heat at 15 second intervals. Add a cereal bowl full of Fritos to the Nutella and toss with 2 spoons until Fritos are coated. Put about 1/2 cup powdered sugar in a 1 quart sized zip lock bag. Dump the Nutella coated Fritos into the zip lock bag with powdered sugar. Seal zip lock bag. Shake until Fritos are coated with powdered sugar.   Now you have a portable sweet treat just for you or to share.  Deeelish!  It’s a must try, if you are …

Bounty of Beans

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“Beans don’t fry in the kitchen.  Beans don’t burn on the grill.  Took me a whole lot of tryin’, just to get up that hill.”  Sometimes, that’s how gardening feels, doesn’t it?  But then, when you get a crop, it’s soooo rewarding, even if it’s a small one, it still feels like a victory…..like you’re finally “In the big leagues”, and you’re finally, “Movin on up!”  I love that song, and as I have been writing this post, it keeps popping into my head, so I thought I’d share it so you can listen to it while you read:)   My two year old and I have been dancing and clapping along to the music this morning. This spring I planted beans.  A LOT of beans.  I had high hopes of sampling new varieties of Limas, black beans, Garbanzo Beans, Yin Yang beans, Fava, purple pole, green pole, yellow wax, and I think that’s it.  Everything was going great, until this drought came along, and nothing was happening.  I had almost given up on my …

I Garden Because I Can….Pun Intended

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Why do you like gardening? This is a poem I wrote about what gardening means to me, during the summer of 2012, when my family and I took on a huge garden plot…we planted around 100 tomato plants, thinking only a few would survive…but almost all of them did! I was in over my head, and it was so much work, but it was an experience I’ll never forget! Since then, I have taken on much smaller gardens, only planting about 6 tomatoes a year.

Starting Basil Indoors

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How to Start Basil In Your Kitchen I just got a question from Shaina about how to start basil so she could have fresh herbs in her kitchen.  Basil is an easy one to germinate, or start from seed.  And fresh basil tastes wonderful in so many dishes.  So this one is for you, Shaina, hope this helps:) First and foremost, you’ll need some seeds!  Below are links to where you can order some of my favorite varieties!  And there are tons of different kinds of Basil! As I was hunting for links for Basil seeds and looking at pictures of this delicious herb, I began smelling Basil!  I told my family, “Man, all of this talk about Basil is making me so hungry, I am starting to smell it!!!”  Then I walked into the kitchen and realized that my son, Harrison, was eating his breakfast, leftover angel hair pasta with basil pesto mixed in!   Getting Started Potting Soil Prep:   One thing that nobody seems to tell you is that potting mix is …