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Actually it’s already fall, but we won’t bother with the details. I took about 10 apples from the batch we picked at the U-Pick farm yesterday and made apple butter. While the apples were cooking down, I went out in the garden and ripped out the butternut squash. I harvested another 8 squash off [...] Our family started a tradition of sorts last year of visiting a U-Pick Apple orchard at least once a year. This year we visited Royal Oak Farm up on the border of IL and WI. Holy Cow! That’s an orchard. They have over 10,000 apple trees of over 24 varieties. We spent the night [...] We fired up the fireplace for the first time since we bought the house. We visited a fireplace company last weekend and priced out a new fireplace *sigh*. $10,000 to rebuild our double sided fireplace. It’s probably one of the best investments in a home in the current market (everyone seems to want a [...] I’ve started a planting diary page. Beans and peas harvest has started. I didn’t plant enough of them it looks like as I’m only pulling in a handful of either one. It’s barely enough to snack on. Which is what I’ve been doing. Squash plant is still going psycho!! I have 15 squash [...] It’s with a sad heart that I say that I must discontinue the podcast. I’ve decided to switch to the less time consuming blog format. To get a perspective on the effort involved in doing a 10 to 15 minute podcast like MyChicagoGarden, I was finding that I would have to spend a good [...] |
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