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KALE, KALE, THE GANGS ALL HERE !      My pun on words for kale the highest vitamin K vegetable of all garden produce.74

HELPING YOU SURVIVE THE BIG RECESSION

THE HOW TO While many are crying wolf, and rightly so, it may be good to take a look at how many families survived in the GREAT DEPRESSION, and how we might prepare ourselves for this very possible...

1 comment    love home food
As a baby kitten Bibbs' baby hair was all grey. This is about three months and beginning to start "Looking Good"75

Potty Training Kittens

Why does a kitten use the bathroom anywhere other than his litter box? Is there something I can do? Yes there is something you can do for kitty. In the first placekittens are babies and need to be trained the...

2 comments    pets training animals
Matroyshka in Red76

RUSSIA AND THE MATRYOSHKA BABUSHKA DOLL

My brother and sister-in-law get wished "Fertility and Motherly Love" by their Russian friends. My brother Basil and his wife Edith (her Russian friends call her ‘Edit’) travel to Russia about twice...

0 comments    christian christ russia
Apple Dumpings over Jigg's Dinner ready to serve hot. 69

APPLE DUMPLINGS FOR SUPPER

My friend who had been married to a Newfoundland boy for many years (my good friend 'Newfie' Lloyd has since passed away)was raving about the apple dumplings served with Jigg’s Dinner at a relatives...

2 comments    food recipe eating
What they looked like to begin with62

THE HUMBLE DAYLILY BECOMES A MOVIE STAR

What many refer to even today as the ditch lily has become one of the most interesting, most diverse, and most beautiful of all perennial garden plants. From a time when the flowers were used as a food...

3 comments    flower species spider
Getting ready for tomorrows market was a long days' work.69

HOT HOTTER TOO HOT

  SCOVILLE RATES: (S) The higher the number = the hotter the taste. Usually indicated in (1000) thousands.   When I was market gardening, I grew two different hot peppers. These were the...

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To a Chocaholic even these peppers will look good.71

PICK A PECK OF SWEET PICKLE PEPPERS

  While visiting a friend one day I was introduced to a small chocolate colour pepper that resembles a Pimento Pepper but is smaller and a chocolate brown in colour. As nearly always, something new, I...

3 comments    eating food preparation pepper
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Do you Remember THE SONG OF THE LAZY FARMER

When I was growing up on the farm we occasionally had salesmen stop by selling their wares and whatever. We would have the Rawleigh's Man, the Watkins Man, The Farmers Advocate Salesman (a Scotsman who would...

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BUCKET FULL OF WASHED GENOVESE BASIL.55

HERBS IN THE GARDEN-BASIL

Basil is, in my estimation, is the king of the annual herbs. I tried several different Basils for market and ended up growing ‘Genovese Basil' for market. With 4 or 5 plants 36 inches tall, I would make...

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LOVEAGE 'Maggie' One of the delightful flavour herbs grown by Gardener Harold.64

HERBS IN THE GARDEN-Anise

Herbs add flavour in our foods. Enough herbs used can often cut down on your salt requirements and intake, as it often tastes better without salt but spiced up with herbs. Anise is one of those herbs that we...

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