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    My Secrets to Prevent Transplant Shock
    • Apr 29, 2019
    • 4 min

    My Secrets to Prevent Transplant Shock

    Hello VEGheads, I'm Very Excited to be sharing my secrets to what I do to prevent transplant shock. I very rarely deal with transplant shock. What I do is different than what I have seen people do, this is what works for me and is what I've been doing. My reason for growing transplants are even different than most. I need to buy myself and my current growing plants some time. Time to prep the beds and time to finish out the previous season. I start seeds outside in little con
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    Plants that I Don't Mention
    • Apr 1, 2019
    • 3 min

    Plants that I Don't Mention

    Hello VEGheads! While I'm all for growing food, I love growing edibles and always will. When it comes to gardening a vegetable garden is always what first comes to my mind. However, this year I am working on growing some flowers just for looks. I have grown Nasturtiums, Marigolds and Zinnas all of which have purpose and also are in fact edible. The plants that I mention in this post are not my main priority and I sometimes neglect these plants, because maybe, I'm just less ex
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    Mason Jar's New Best Friend!!
    • Mar 15, 2019
    • 3 min

    Mason Jar's New Best Friend!!

    Hello VEGheads!! Where are all my mason jar lovers, my die hard canners and my farm house decorators. I'm very excited to announce an innovative mason jar accessory created by a wife and husband duo, Kate and Bryce. They liked a few of my canning photos on Instagram. I checked out their page. Then checked the link on their bio, a kickstarter. I already had canned lemonade and thought it was brilliant to be able to pop the top and actually have a spout to pour, mess free. I ba
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    My First Garden Expo; Fresno Home and Garden Show 2019
    • Mar 9, 2019
    • 4 min

    My First Garden Expo; Fresno Home and Garden Show 2019

    Hello VEGheads, Last week I attended my first garden expo ever, I'm planning to attend more, they're fun. With over 500 vendors, I was overwhelmed and honestly not expecting there to be SO many people knowing that it was going to rain. The trade show included many home vendors for cabinets, counters, blinds, roofing, etc. While I felt their weren't as many garden related vendors. I had 5 booths in mind that I wanted to stop and talk to whom I knew were going to be attending t
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    5 Vegetables that I always plant in my garden
    • Feb 23, 2019
    • 4 min

    5 Vegetables that I always plant in my garden

    I'm still working on planning out my garden and have yet to start seeds for my raised bed. I know, I'm slacking. It's hard for me to start planning my summer garden when my winter garden in still producing and we've been having cold weather so I don't see any reason to pull out the plants yet. I've been thinking about the plants that I'll be putting in my garden, I have some new plants to me, like eggplant. I've never grown it, but would like to add it to my garden. Then I ha
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    How I Still Garden When It's Raining
    • Feb 16, 2019
    • 3 min

    How I Still Garden When It's Raining

    We've had rain for most of the week. (If I could show the mid west what Californian's consider rain, you would have a good laugh), but we have had very high winds as well. With all this nasty weather it leaves gardeners trying to garden indoors. Here's a list of things that I do when it's nasty outside. 1. Daydream I like to sip some tea and daydream of my Spring/ Summer garden. I usually start with my own seed collection and then look through seed catalogs that I already ski
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    Selecting Seeds and Thinking Local
    • Feb 9, 2019
    • 5 min

    Selecting Seeds and Thinking Local

    With Spring right around the corner you may be looking for some options of seeds to purchase. I'm a large advocate for supporting local companies and wanted to highlight some California based seed companies. I have a few things that I look for when I'm searching for a seed company. Here's the list in order of importance to me: 1. Heirloom seeds - Heirlooms are old varieties that are unpatented and able to be saved carefully year after year and get the same crop. Not to mentio
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    Organizing My Seed Collection
    • Jan 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    Organizing My Seed Collection

    Any gardener has a seed collection. I have kept mine in a kitchen drawer. Then when that became invasive. And at the bottom of the bag was a bunch of seeds, some I could identify (corn). Others were a little harder, (spaghetti squash or zucchini) And further more down right impossible. (broccoli, cabbage, beets) I almost never planted them, occasionally I would just to see what happened. I came across a "hack" to use a photo book as a seed organizer. It worked wonderfully unt
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    Shelf Stable Canned Lemonade
    • Jan 14, 2019
    • 3 min

    Shelf Stable Canned Lemonade

    For all my Pinterest readers... I put the recipe at the top for you. You're welcome. I'm so excited to be sharing this with you. Last year was the first time I made shelf stable lemonade and it is now a tradition I will forever do. With Spring right around the corner you may be lemon'd out trying to use all the lemons on your lemon tree. Now you can preserve winter's brightest fruit for summer's favorite drink with out taking up space in your freezer. First I pick the lemons
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    Gardener's Most Sustainable Food
    • Dec 15, 2018
    • 2 min

    Gardener's Most Sustainable Food

    You may giggle at my hopes of becoming sustainable in my little 400 sq ft backyard. While I know I will not raise chickens or wheat, I'm doing the best I can. I have a list of favorite meals that have come from my backyard, including herb roasted potatoes and rabbit. 16 different fruits, vegetables and herbs have been collected in the first year I've been at my apartment and brought inside to be prepared for food. I believe that nothing compares to the freshness of the produc
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