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Northern NJ Garden 2025
It is February and in northern New Jersey, our gardens slumber underneath snow and ice. But this is the time to get an early start on our flowers and vegetables! Follow along with us as we prepare our 2025 gardens! … Continue reading
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rt23 NJ Garden Recipes
sauteed squash – how to freeze summer squash – Cucumbers – Tomatoes! – This year, we grew a large number of summer squash plants and have been harvesting an abundance of summer squash. I had never cooked squash before, but … Continue reading
Asparagus
New Jersey is the fourth biggest asparagus producer in the United States, and the crop is grown mostly in the southern part of the state. I found a bag of asparagus crowns for sale in a big box store and … Continue reading
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Cucamelon Tycoon
Yes indeed, I am now a cucamelon tycoon. Third year growing this south american delicacy in north Jersey. Cucamelons are also known as Mouse Melon and Mexican Sour Gherkins. The fruit is small (grape size) having a crunchy texture with … Continue reading
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Composting in Northern New Jersey
Every year, households in the United States throw away thousands of pounds of organic material. Most of this waste is food scraps and yard clippings, which decompose slowly in landfills and release methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Composting is an … Continue reading
Pickling!
Two types of pickling are hot water canning and quick refrigerator pickles. This year the garden produced an abundance of cucumbers. Fresh cucumbers are great in salads and make tasty cucumber sandwiches, but inevitably the novelty wears off. Pickling cucumbers … Continue reading
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Green Tomatoes
What to do when your tomato plants are full of green tomatoes at the end of the growing season? Fried green tomatoes? Try to ripen them?My choice is to try to ripen the tomatoes. Everyone has a different method; place … Continue reading
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Canning
What to do with all the tomatoes! Canning is an easy solution. Toe-may-toe, Toe-MAH-toe, what to do when you have too many tomatoes? Give them away to neighbors and relatives? Let them rot on the vine? One solution may be … Continue reading
Spring Lawn Cleanup
In northern New Jersey when the snow is gone and the overnight temperatures are above freezing, I like to get a headstart early with raking the dead grass and tree litter from my lawn. Its a big job, so I … Continue reading
So it begins….
set things in motion foe 2021, I bought a seedling tray and filled it with tomato seeds. I planted a variety including soem 3 year old super beefsteak seeds from 2019. I have some new Rutgers variety seeds ( which … Continue reading
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