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Garden of Galadriel: Growing surplus food, into the freezer
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Friday, August 07, 2015. Growing surplus food, into the freezer. Franklin, recovering from chicken pox. Unlike last year, this year has been great for growing vegetables here in my garden. I've even had enough surplus to begin freezing. In fact, I'm a little low on freezer space. Mallow, feverfew, clematis. Morello cherries, netted against birds. Though before I started freezing monsters, I froze a whole gallon of morello cherries from my little tree. This tree is so cute! I built this barbecue! The most...
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Garden of Galadriel: April 2015
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Thursday, April 16, 2015. New chicks, new gate, more spring gardening. Partner's been playing with them and picking them up regularly, to make them friendly around people and accustomed to being picked up, which will help us when they're grown. He really enjoys them, and they certainly like him the best. We joke that he's "Mama" and I'm "Not the mama.". Though it's covered in blossom, I wonder if my new pear tree will set fruit? My window boxes have not been replanted since they originally went up two wi...
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Garden of Galadriel: January 2015
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015. The lone star quilt, chickens, a few goals. Here's my patchwork quilt, all quilted and finished. It took me several days to machine quilt it; luckily from this distance the wobbly quilting stitches are invisible! We have ten chickens altogether, and now they are fully feathered again, I can no longer tell them apart! We put up a new fence of chicken wire to replace the old orange plastic one (a background feature in many photos here! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Narrows No...
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Garden of Galadriel: May 2015
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Monday, May 25, 2015. Bunting, eating greens, too many plants. In preparation for our Midsummer celebration, I made a length of bunting; it's of various scraps out of my scrap bag from some old clothing, curtains, and a sheet. The main pieces of these fabrics have gone into making other things (for instance, the sheet became the backing for a quilt I made. I picked this bouquet of bluebells, honesty, and peony leaves last week. Time for a new flower arrangement now. We'll probably integrate the chicks in...
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Garden of Galadriel: June 2015
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Food in the summer garden. Life goes on. A third chickie has become our dinner, and his bones are in the freezer ready to make stock. He was still small-ish (bigger than the first two, but smaller than any of the adults) but had also begun crowing, so it was into the pot with him. His demise was only slightly less traumatic than the first. Partner dispatched him. Drying fragrant rose petals. Willow arch, leading from patio to lawn. As well as using them fresh, I'm also picking a...
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Garden of Galadriel: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014. I put together a rickety raised bed from some old fence posts I had. It's only a temporary solution, to go on the dead bed next to the neighbor's new fence. I've got some winter greens sprouting in my garage now, to be transplanted later. I also sowed a couple more large-ish pots with greens and carrots on the patio. It's a little late for carrots, but hopefully I'll get some baby ones. Lilies are looking- and smelling- great now. My little fig tree cutting! It has little figs!
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Garden of Galadriel: November 2014
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Monday, November 24, 2014. A new pond, patio, preserving a small harvest, quilting. There were two, both this size. One is already cooked and pureed, in the freezer. This one is on the counter, still. Also notice the last of the green tomatoes in the photo above; there are also now picked and made into green tomato relish, according to a recipe in the Joy of Cooking. The veg patch, meanwhile, is now designated closest to the house, and this space will also have extra special flowers and plants. I fen...
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Garden of Galadriel: August 2015
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Friday, August 07, 2015. Growing surplus food, into the freezer. Franklin, recovering from chicken pox. Unlike last year, this year has been great for growing vegetables here in my garden. I've even had enough surplus to begin freezing. In fact, I'm a little low on freezer space. Mallow, feverfew, clematis. Morello cherries, netted against birds. Though before I started freezing monsters, I froze a whole gallon of morello cherries from my little tree. This tree is so cute! I built this barbecue! The most...
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Garden of Galadriel: Food in the summer garden
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Food in the summer garden. Life goes on. A third chickie has become our dinner, and his bones are in the freezer ready to make stock. He was still small-ish (bigger than the first two, but smaller than any of the adults) but had also begun crowing, so it was into the pot with him. His demise was only slightly less traumatic than the first. Partner dispatched him. Drying fragrant rose petals. Willow arch, leading from patio to lawn. As well as using them fresh, I'm also picking a...
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Garden of Galadriel: Thoughts on death and life: raising meat chickens
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Monday, June 08, 2015. Thoughts on death and life: raising meat chickens. Our first two chicks have been butchered and eaten. I wrote a post about my experience on the forums at permies.com. With pictures. A few of the pictures may be too graphic for some readers, so consider yourself warned! Http:/ www.permies.com/t/47535/chickens/time-chicken-butchery-photos. And I have gradually become more socially conscious which is not something I discuss much; for instance, I can simply no longer eat or buy shrimp...
