Searching the seed catalogs
For all I love the internet and seed sites (I have a very long history with seed companies..we won’t even go into that), there is something totally different about reading a catalog. I find I get so...
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Think Irish? Think Lamb!
Yes, yes, I know, St. Patrick’s Day is coming up fast and the usual thing is corned beef and cabbage. But, let me make the case for something else: lamb. First, let’s look at this historically. Anyone...
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One a penny, two a penny..hot cross buns
This is the time of the year when you can find all sorts of seasonal/holiday treats in your local grocery store or bakery (if you have one). My seasonal guilty pleasure are hot cross buns. I have not...
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Getting things started in the garden
Well, spring really sneaked up on us here at Chez Siberia (and probably a lot of other places as well). One moment, we have six inches of snow with freezing temperatures and the next… 50 degrees and...
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Getting started with gardening
I hear more and more from people who want to get into gardening, feel overwhelmed, don’t know where to start and so on. For the ‘I want to garden’ part, I say, “Hurray!! Another convert!” For the...
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Weekend thoughts on the garden
Since it is literally in the low 40s outside, and raining, and generally miserable (we don’t call this place Che Siberia for nuthin’ folks), your Aunt Toby is forced to working inside today to get...
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When do I transplant seedlings?
If you are just starting out growing plants from seeds on your own, you might have some questions about how quickly or soon to transplant to the next size pot. The secret here, to be blunt, is to...
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Catching up: the garden
This is not a very exciting photo but it does give a pretty good indication of what, to the casual observer, is our garden this year. We got started late, got invaded by rabbits, got very little rain...
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Thoughts on a Sunday night
Summertime is very busy for everyone, but here are a few thoughts. 1. This is a sawhorse. One of the things on my ‘to do’ list (which is becoming more urgent as time goes on, as I get older) is...
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Garden update: early harvests
Well, here we are in the early stages of our garden here at Chez Siberia. We’re now long past the early ‘spindly’ stages of things; now the garden is really shaping up. We’ve got a couple of odd empty...
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More good for you beans!
Yes, I know it’s summer and the grills are just hopping out there. Who wants to read about more bean dishes, right? Well, you can’t eat meat all the time. A couple of vegetarian meals a week is not...
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Make dessert a dessert: Chocolate Banana Cream Pie
There are times when right down to the tops of your sneakers, what you want is a dessert that has basically no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I don’t know that anyone can be blamed for that. This is...
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Cue the scary music
I am sure a lot of readers here have seen a photo that is out there on the ‘net’ showing a huge boulder with a tree growing right up through the center of it as an illustration of ‘paper beats rock’ or...
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Pickling time
Now, I would not necessarily say that you can make pickles out of anything, but considering the fact that you can make pickles out of watermelon rind and zucchini, I think it’s not a real stretch to...
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OK, so you’ve got a garden – what are you going to do with it?
OK, so here we are, at what, for us here at Chez Siberia, is well on the way to the prime production time out there in the garden. And frankly, even though we’ve been doing this for (ahem) 35 years,...
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How to make an apple pie
Your dear old Aunty realizes that this might sound a bit silly, but there are people in the world who have never made an apple pie and who dearly would like the experience of making one. And at this...
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End of the season?
And a good, good day to everyone, wherever you are. This has been a very busy week in the garden for the DH and your Aunty. Not for choice necessarily, but sometimes you have to get things done before...
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Oh, my gosh, I’ve been missing
Well, ‘missing in action’ does not even begin to describe my lack of posting. We’ve been busy-busy (as have everyone else at this time of the year, but we have birthdays as well as the usual holidays...
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So – is your family a ‘get up at 5 a.m. on Christmas morning, create a hurricane of wrapping paper and THEN eat something’? Or are you a ‘eat something first; then open gifts, then eat some more or...
View ArticleSo, whatcha got?
Good afternoon, little munchkins. Now that you’ve theoretically crawled out from underneath the holiday wrapping paper and all the cookies, I’m sure what is burning at your brains is this: What is new...
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