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My Organic Beans and their List of Complaints
What a fiasco! My beans plants were scrawny and miserable. The leaves were reduced to lace by an invasion of some nasty leaf eating insects. And obviously the yield was very poor. It was a total failure and my beans were complaining!
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How I became an Organic Gardener with a Tomato
The taste of that chemical tomato still lingers and that makes me more determined than ever to try my hand at organic gardening.
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Scrumptious Pumpkin Fritters
Here is my tried and trusted recipe for the really Scrumptious Pumpkin Fritters that I promised you in my previous post about “The Great Pumpkin Adventure“. They turn out puffed and golden. 2 cups mashed pumpkin (500gm) ½ cup flour (125gm) 2 level teaspoons baking powder, Pinch of salt 1 beaten egg A little milk if the consistency is too tight. Mix well and drop with a tablespoon into hot oil. Lightly brown both sides. Drain on absorbent paper and serve hot with cinnamon and sugar. Tip: I never deep fry or use too much oil. 1cm of light sunflower oil covering the bottom of the pan is sufficient. Don’t…
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The Great Pumpkin Adventure
The Great Pumpkin Adventure is a success story of great magnitude. Or put another way; small beginnings lead to great results. I’m talking about pumpkins – yes, the ordinary garden variety. And this is how it happened. I kept a few pumpkin seeds from a really good pumpkin we had bought at the supermarket. And like Jack and the beanstalk the day arrived when I decided to plant them. Just 6 seeds at the bottom of my garden. Now the garden is slightly sloped so they were out of sight and I forgot about them until a few weeks later when I saw some big healthy pumpkin leaves. It didn’t…
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Easy Creamed Spinach Recipe
Here is the easy creamed spinach recipe I promised you. It tastes even better when you use fresh spinach picked from your own garden. And don’t forget – organic is best. I just read about someone asking about the pro’s and cons of irradiated spinach to kill bugs and make it last longer. Well I really wouldn’t know about that. There are many opinions about it and I think the jury is still out on that. But whatever the outcome I personally prefer the fresh organic spinach from my garden. It should of course be washed well. So here is my recipe: EASY CREAMED SPINACH 3 Tablespoons butter 1 small…
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Grow Leafy Green Spinach in your Home Garden
Some gardeners attack their spinach plants with kitchen knives and cut down the entire plant. This is unnecessarily aggressive. It’s a total waste too because you lose the whole plant with one picking.