Spring

Planning Ideas for your Vegetable Garden

The Garden Charmers Spring Fever Growing Your own Food

Its time to start thinking about your vegetable garden, regardless of whether or not you are a new or a seasoned gardener planning ahead makes all the difference in success and enjoyment of your garden.  I like to call this time Vegetable Garden Spring Fever. Most people start out as a weekend gardener with limited […]

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Yellow Cupcake with Real Strawberry Butter Frosting

Real Strawberry Butter Frosting cupcake

 Sadly the strawberries are all finished producing in my garden.  Luckily I had enough to make this frosting.  This cupcake is all about the frosting, which is good enough you want to eat it all by itself.  This frosting would be good on chocolate, white or my yellow cupcakes which I show here.  You might […]

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Strawberry Margarita

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Even though the temperature last night went down to 45 degrees, yep Mother Nature is WHACK!  The strawberries are still ripening daily in the garden.  One of my favorite things to grow is strawberries, they make an appearance every spring and as long as you provide decent soil, full sun and enough water they go […]

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White Cupcake with Buttercream Frosting

White Cupcake with Buttercream Frosting 4

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in in battle.  Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday which occurs every year on the final Monday of May. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United […]

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Vegetable and Perennial care in May; Chicken update

chickens in the garden

The girls and guys have been enjoying their time free ranging, especially over the last few days when the temperature has reached 90 degrees.  They find a nice cool spot under the bushes and take dust baths in the cool soil.  I have had to completely ban them from the vegetable garden, closing the gate. […]

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Oregano Pesto

Oregano Pesto

  I would never have come up with this recipe if another recipe had not led me here.  I have been working on a Spanish Potato Salad and I knew I wanted to add a pesto and was planning on using Basil Pesto, but I knew basil was not a herb that was used often […]

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