Cedar Writes

Category: Garden

  • Potential

    Potential

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    Spring has always been, for me, the beginning of a new year. Winter is a time of enduring, waiting for the return of warmth, flowers, and the sun. When the rains come and the green unfurls, then I feel the quickening of my heart in time with the bird’s song. I’ve had a garden always,…

  • Live like an Orchid

    Live like an Orchid

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    I was reading a book the other day that mentioned a hothouse. It was a British mystery, and the hothouse did actually play a role… and if you like Brit mysteries I can highly recommend this series which starts with A Man of Some Repute and is set in the Cold-War Era (just don’t bother…

  • Taking a Deep Breath

    Taking a Deep Breath

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    It’s been a long week, and yesterday was tiring. Since David Pascoe was good enough to take today’s Mad Genius Club post with the continuation of his story (go read it, it’s good) then I am free to take a deep breath, smell the flowers, and come back tomorrow renewed and refreshed. Sorry for the…

  • Spring Harvest

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    cedarlili
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    I went out yesterday and gathered in some green harvest…   The Pac Choi won’t last much longer, as temps in the greenhouse near 100 every day. Dad rolled up the sidewalls yesterday, but the lettuce and greens will bolt within a week, I’d guess. Frost-free date for NH is officially June 1, but we…

  • Ham and Egg Sandwich

    Ham and Egg Sandwich

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    cedarlili
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    I have a confession. Although I do love to cook, I hate to cook just for me. Which means that on days when the kids are at school, and Dad’s at work, I don’t eat a whole lot, and what I do is better not mentioned. Since Dad’s home for the next couple of weeks…

  • December Greenhouse

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    cedarlili
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    “tis the season to renovate the greenhouse and prepare it for next season’s crops. We haven’t done anything with it for a month or so since we finally had a hard enough frost to freeze it. But even with the waning daylight hours and cold weather over the last couple of days, it was nice…

  • Summer is Dead – Long live Fall!

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    cedarlili
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    We are bringing in what harvest we have, preparing for the first Frost, which technically could come any day now in New Hampshire. September first is the first day of Fall for me, whatever the actual date may be. Because we lost the tomatoes in the greenhouse to blight, Dad has pulled them out and…

  • Cooking From the Garden II

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    cedarlili
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      Continuing the theme of cooking with what I harvested, I made Focaccia Bread for lunch. Fresh herbs, ripe tomatoes, and some shredded summer squash on herby-garlicky dough was delicious!   Focaccia Bread   5 1/2 c all-purpose flour 2 tsp salt 2 tsp white sugar 4 tsp active dry yeast 2 tbsp vegetable oil 2 c warm water (105-115…

  • Cooking from the Garden

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    cedarlili
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    When I came in this morning from chores, I had a basket full of goodies. Eggs, blueberries, summer squash, basil, tomatoes and raspberries. I had a couple of very large zucchini, and that made me think of zucchini bread. I wanted to kick up the standard Zucchini bread recipe a little, so I threw in…

  • Mother of All Blueberry Bushes

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    cedarlili
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      We started out early today, as it’s another hot one. It was up to about 100 degrees yesterday, might hit that much again today. It did rain last night, and started off overcast today, which let us all work until close to one before knocking off for the afternoon. Dad and Mica are putting…

  • Changing the Face of the Garden

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    cedarlili
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    We hired a guy with an excavator to help us remake the garden. The third of an acre we use as a garden and which was a truck garden decades before we moved into this house slopes slightly to the north. It has been overgrown for years, even the part that we had used as…

  • Early Morning Blueberries

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    cedarlili
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      We went out to pick berries at 6:30 this morning because I haven’t picked in days and I was anxious not to lose my berry crop.  Pippa joined me right after I went out and we picked until just after 8. We got two quarts of blueberries and about a pint of raspberries and didn’t make…