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first ever garlic harvest

Posted in garden, Harvest, Video, tagged garden, garlic, harvest, Video on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Two bulbs of supermarket garlic divided into cloves and planted in late October 2010 produced 2 pounds of harvested cured garlic in June 2011… this first time success will insure that Eden Keeps plants garlic again this fall…!!

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Listen to the Snow Melt

Posted in garden, Photos, Video, tagged garden, musical, nature, Photos, snow, Video, winter on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes we fail to pause and hear what we only casually see… Yesterday, the weather was just beautiful around here and the sounds of the running water from melting snow made me giggle every single time I stepped outside. A little walk around the garden revealed what are true signs of a returning spring. [...]

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God as a Gardener

Posted in garden, Graces, tagged garden, God, reflection, thankful on February 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Saturday’s daily reflection, How Does Your Garden Grow? from Alive Now, suggests to share some of the plants and flowers in God’s garden for which you are most thankful. Right now, I will just be thankful for the return of the first buds, blooms and bugs of spring… I am also pretty [...]

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Back in the Garden Again

Posted in Contests, Events, garden, Photos, tagged free offer, garden, seeds, skgseeds, squash, tomato, Your Small Kitchen Garden on February 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Soon, please soon, this snow will melt. Soon, the blizzards will be behind us for another year. And soon I will return to blogging here to share all the joys of spring time and green things and fun along the way…!! Fun things like making sure your name is on @cityslipper‘s list get free [...]

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this week in the garden 3/15 – 3/21

Posted in Calendar, Crops, garden, Graces, Photos, tagged Flickr, garden, gardening, green, photograph, recycle, reuse, sustainable on March 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

We played in the dirt this week instead of in the mud! Finally some dry weather allowed us to do a little tilling and planting. But first we burned the brush pile. Yikes!! We wonder if an early garden visitor will return in an attempt to share in the toils of our labor… He tilled. [...]

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this week in the garden 3/08 – 3/14

Posted in garden, Photos, Video, tagged Abraham Lincoln tomato, bird, Cayenne pepper, cedar waxwing, Crimson Cushion tomato, Eden Keeps, Flickr, garden, gardening, heirloom variety, Kentucky, moon, Packman Broccoli, pepper, photograph, Photos, Pimento Pepper, rain, seed, seedling, Siletz tomato, tomato, Video, waterdrops, weather, weekly update, West Kentucky, YouTube on March 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The word for the week on our weekly garden journey, 2009? Muddy. We had tried to play around in the dirt some late in the week before but found the garden still too wet to work. But last Sunday it got even wetter. After almost 1 1/4 inches of rain, once again we had to [...]

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welcome to our garden

Posted in garden, tagged blog, Eden Keeps, family history, farming, garden, Kentucky, KY, photograph, vegetables, West Kentucky on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

We are having a garden again! My grandparents lived on farm in south Graves County, KY, when I was very little. The fun memories we have from there are many. Climbing the sarvis tree in the chicken yard, gathering eggs from the hen house, watching as they made sausage from pig parts sorted amongst big [...]

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