Come on! It's almost soup season!
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Comments (2)Hi Dawna! Oh, I am so happy for you! Tell DH he is a prince of a guy! You have got to start somewhere, and a 20' x 40' garden is not a bad size to start with. You know how it is the first year of a new garden plot, anyway, with unknown weed seed lurking in the freshly tilled soil and all that. If your weather forecast is anything like ours, you should have beautiful weather the new couple of weeks, and especially today and tomorrow. I am planting tomatoes this afternoon, unless something pops up in the extended weather forecast that stops me (and I don't think it will). We're going to be in the 80s here today and tomorrow. I probably won't plant corn until next week because a few cool nights might be lurking. Dawn...See MoreSeasoning vegetable soup
Comments (18)I make all different versions of soup depending on what I have available! Given your list of ingredients, I'd kick it up by adding more tomatoes, more basil, just a little corn if you have it... I'd also add red kidney beans, I think, but you seem to be avoiding that kind of thing. Then I'd serve it with parmesan cheese and hot pepper flakes. :)...See MoreSummer has arrived; I guess rose season is almost done...
Comments (24)Bart, in my blog there is an article whose title is: "Calculator of shadows and other systems to know where to plant a tree that protects a plant at noon" If you want to visit, this is the link: http://eljardindelaalegriaenmadrid.blogspot.com.es/2016/11/calculadora-de-sombras-y-otros-sistemas.html In this article you will find a tool that I find very useful. It is a "shadow calculator". You put the geographical latitude to which your garden is located, the height of the adult tree, and the day and month of the date you want to calculate. It will give you how much the shadow of that tree you will imagine on the date you have entered (The shadows projecting any object in summer are much shorter than in winter). Maybe I'm not the one to explain it well using the translator. But if you visit the page you will understand what I say. It is a very valuable tool to know where exactly to locate the tree so that during the summer it projects its shadow towards the zone that you want. I think you should use as measures meters and centimeters (there are pages on the web that will translate your unit of measurement that you use meters and centimeters) I hope that helps. I also speak in this article of another design program that is free and you can download the web. It is very easy to use and is in your language. Easy to use and very useful to know how the shadows of the trees will be planted in a certain place. The program is SketchUp....See MoreSo cold, back to soup season!
Comments (14)We had wintery weather last week, with highs in the low 60s and lows in the low 50s, which reminded me of August in San Francisco, although I seldom stayed in SF during August because of the cold and fog. I used to live in Houston, and the summers there were unbearable, but the winters were very nice - in January only about 5° colder than L.A. I do not do well with any extremes in weather, either cold or hot, but I've had more experience (growing up) with heat. San Francisco was too cold for me, but where I live now seems about just right. I'm close enough to the beach that it does not get hot in the summer. I make soup no matter what the weather is here. It's supposed to rain again tomorrow, and that is rather late for rain here, and so if it does, I will make soup, and if it does not (or stops soon enough) we will barbecue. I should go to Florida some time, as Kevin has a friend in Tampa who wants us to visit. I would not go in the summer or during hurricane season, however....See Moredigdirt2
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