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The State of the Garden – June 2016

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Patty
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June 27, 2016

I have been most remiss about posting about the garden this year. I did this video before I went away on my vacation – I’ll have a post all about my trip with a Blogaversary Giveway in the next few days – but just didn’t have the time to get it posted. We’ve had a somewhat strange spring here in western Montana; it got very hot quite early, then it cooled and now it’s hot again. Who knows what that is going to do to the plants?

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Before I left the strawberries started coming which was wonderful. We ate them several nights for dessert and I made one delicious strawberry pie. The recipe for that is also coming soon. I tried something new this year and added a layer of chocolate ganache. Mmmmm.

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He also harvested the garlic while I was away. Do you think we’ll have enough? Maybe I’ll hold a giveaway for a small box of homegrown garlic. Would anyone be interested in that? Let me know in the comments.

He also harvested a lot of spinach while I was away. He put up about a dozen gallon bags in the freezer. It’s one of the easier vegetables to process. This year has been great for spinach.

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He brought me in quite a bit today as well and I put most of it into bags to freeze but I did cook some for him for his dinner tonight. I don’t like cooked spinach – I only like it raw in a salad.

The goats got all of the trimmings and stems from the spinach processing today so they were happy too.

I hope you enjoy this video tour of the garden. It has gotten to be a bit of a tradition now that I do these. I’ll do another one sometime next month so you can see the difference as the plants grow. I mention drip irrigation in the video. To see the system we use check out this post: Drip Irrigation from DripWorks

If you can’t see the movie you can watch it on YouTube HERE

I also took a later video in the blackberry garden after I got home. This year we should FINALLY have a blackberry harvest. There are tons of blossoms and the bee activity has been incredible:

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Recently moved from the rural life of Montana to the small city of Brattleboro, Vermont, Patty Woodland is navigating the urban life of sidewalks and neighbors once again. She will share life in her small city, the books she reads, and as always, the delicious food she cooks and bakes.

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