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The weather outside is frightful

The snowstorms of the midwest are bearing down on us here in the Great Lakes. Frigid air, blowing snow and gusty wind is the new order of winter. Not for long, the temps. will return to the mid 40’s by midday. I know many are reveling in the (frightfully) warm weather that’s been hanging around [...]

Vegetable gardening: 101 (part 3)

“There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling,
as gathering the vegetables one has grown.”
-  Alice B. Toklas

These are the last of the early crops for spring planting. (There are others, like favas, but those will have to be another post.)  All require full sun and cool spring [...]