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Garden Tour #4
I am gooving to my jam...lol Those are my beautiful wild black berries. Since 2022 I have made at least 2-3 batches of black berry jam...
torchlightgirl
May 28, 20241 min read
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Garden Tour #3
Carol's Torchlight Cottage is a place where you can find recipes and other ideas for making your own household and personal products. Come l
torchlightgirl
May 21, 20242 min read
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Garden Tour #2
Lovely rows of Bok Choy are coming up. Our growing season here in east Tennessee has been about 6 weeks earlier. Already picked and...
torchlightgirl
May 14, 20241 min read
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Garden Tour #1
Hi everyone! This is my busy time on our homestead. So much to do in order to have food planted for eating fresh and for later down the...
torchlightgirl
May 7, 20242 min read
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Garden Experiment Success
Yesterday I worked out in the garden. Digging up the potatoes I had planted last fall. They did well. Most were a good size overall....
torchlightgirl
Mar 26, 20241 min read
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Prepping The Garden For Spring
Our weather has been warming up. So, it is time to be prepping my garden for the 2024 planting season. My compost pile is ready to use....
torchlightgirl
Feb 21, 20242 min read
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Garden Box Update
My garden boxes still have some little onions, swiss chard and kale. I read an article about leaving them in over the winter so they will...
torchlightgirl
Dec 12, 20231 min read
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Back Garden Update
Life has been quite busy. I believe as busy as it was during the spring and summer months with working out in the garden. Just super...
torchlightgirl
Nov 21, 20231 min read
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Tons of Green Beans
One of my goals this summer was to have enough green beans canned so I wouldn't have to purchase any. The prices on canned veggies really...
torchlightgirl
Oct 17, 20231 min read
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Squash Here We Come
Funny story about the squash this year...lol I planted it all later in the summer so the flying bugs that land on the leaves and the...
torchlightgirl
Oct 10, 20231 min read
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Seed Saving Basil
I am still seed saving from my Basil plants. This is a photo of the first batch I did several weeks back. Growing them in a pot is...
torchlightgirl
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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Dinner From the Garden
Dinner is served!!! From my gardne I used carrots, kale, zucchini and tomatoes. Added a few store bought red potatoes and quarter of an...
torchlightgirl
Sep 26, 20231 min read
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Assorted Vegetables
This is my garden haul recently. Tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli and swiss chard. I get everything cleaned up so I can process them. Tomatoes...
torchlightgirl
Sep 19, 20231 min read
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Tomatoes Galore This Season
This year I have had so many tomatoes. Really thankful to the Lord for them. I planted a good amount so I could have enought to eat and...
torchlightgirl
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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Squash Is Happy
Recently I made the time to transplant my squash that was growing in a pot. Yeah, with everything on my plate elsewhere in the garden...
torchlightgirl
Aug 29, 20231 min read
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Growing Carrots
The last few years I have been experimenting with new main dishes that have less amount of ingredients in them. For example, I can use...
torchlightgirl
Aug 22, 20231 min read
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Growing Bush Beans
Last year was my first attempt at growing bush beans. I had 8 plants in a garden box. I was able to can one batch of beans and ate many...
torchlightgirl
Aug 15, 20231 min read
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Growing Garlic
My garlic is growing well as you can see. This goes for my tomatoes also as you can see in the photo. I have more popping up in my other...
torchlightgirl
Aug 8, 20231 min read
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Bok Choy Is Bolting
This years experiment with Bok Choy turned out excellent. I was able to eat and dehydrate several batches. Currently, I have let it bolt....
torchlightgirl
Aug 1, 20231 min read
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Easy To Grow Pinto Beans
This spring my hubby and I expanded our back garden. These pinto beans are growing where we expanded the area. Okay, so I bet you are...
torchlightgirl
Jul 25, 20231 min read
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