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Marinated Tomato Salad...must try!

Tomato Update: You may have noticed in my garden pictures that there is a renegade tomato plant in the northwest corner of our plot. It...

Holy Frijoles

What is there to know about beans as a beginning gardener? First off you should know that beans fall into two large groupings: bush beans...

Rainbows & Unicorns

Rainbow Swiss Chard will have you seeing unicorns! It is the most luscious, delicious green I have ever eaten. I would not steer you...

Sugar snaps make me hap-pea

Did you ever want to know the answer to this question? "What's the difference between Snow Peas, Garden Peas and Snap Peas?" Well I...

Magical Fairy Pumpkins

Do you love those amazingly whimsical fairy pumpkins that come out in the Fall as much as I do? I adore them. They have that...

Melon Massacre

Actually I mean squash...my spaghetti squash that is! The weather has been so warm and the squash, melons and cucumbers have been taking...

Tomato therapy

Gardening: Cheaper than therapy...And you get tomatoes! Lots and lots of tomatoes! There are so many things you can make with tomatoes. A...

Peck of pickled peppers

Wondering what to do with all your peppers? Me too. No, I didn't actually harvest a peck of peppers, Peck is a unit of capacity. In the...

Everything's better in purple

Oh, glorious purple! The cabbages are now ready to be harvested and eaten. I found a couple of cabbage recipes that we tried and that you...

Brussels Emerge

Our brussel sprouts are growing so well! When I planted the seedlings they looked pitiful and I thought I'd lose 1 or 2, but all 6 plants...

San Marzano Shout-Out

I want to give a very heart-felt shout out to Monica. Mike's friend at work, Monica, goes to the Fullerton College Horticulture...

Wascally Wabbit

Apparently, there was a break in at our HBCG plot while we were out of town at our National Convention in Layton, Utah. Peter's cousin,...

Rockstars at the Garden

This week's rockstars are the Early Red Acre Cabbages and Mammoth Sunflowers. The cabbage greens have taken over their box, though we...

Salad for days

Our lettuces are giving us big returns, so much so that I decided to get a bit creative with our salad last night since we are eating...

Garden Update

Before thinning After thinning Yay! Our very own greens... Two months in and our Huntington Beach community garden plot is growing well!...

I'm a veggie mama!

I am so proud...my seeds are sprouting. #beans #organicgardens #communitygardens #veggievirgins #beginninggardeners #seedlings

Let's Plant

What a day! We finally got veggies in the ground...whoop. In the interest of small, fast successes, we laid in a trellis grid and planted...

Beginning Gardeners begin

We spent a fantastic 3 hours in the garden on Saturday:) First things first, we decided to go with Square Foot Gardening by Mel...

Garden Experiment-Zone 10b

Welcome to my Beginning Gardener Experiment. I am calling this an experiment because I have never ever had an organic garden or ever had...

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