Welcome to the D.I.G.S. garden blog!!
Any and all of our gardeners and friends can add to this blog!
We'd like to create a place for photos and ideas for our garden, and alert those who are away, or busy in their own gardens, as to what's going on in the big community garden.
Book titles, tips and green-thumb tricks, planning guides all welcome.
We are putting together a few handy charts and time-tables for planting seeds in our area, and will have those up soon.
All vertical growing ideas and thoughts on how to create more fruit and vegetable production are welcome.
Here is a sample of a gardener's timetable from the U.K.
Look how simple it is to make a jpeg large enough to read, just double click on the chart below, and then use the BACK button to come back here again.
We are all looking forward to knowing the latest news and also reviewing past plans and successes.
By keeping a quick jotting of what we did each week in the garden, perhaps we can create a gardening journal of our ideas and projects, so looking back, year by year, we can see by date what was done.
Anybody may contribute! The more the merrier! Especially your photos of growing things! Love to see who's got what plants doing well in their home gardens too!
Send suggestions, ideas, and your plain text gardening notes by email with j-peg photos (small size) attached to: m.e.harris50@gmail.com and we'll post them here.
I don't think we can post Word or PDF documents here, but if they are sent as j-pegs and plain text, they're easy to post on this blog.
NEWS- Free gardening mags!
At the harvest table these days you'll see free garden magazines to take home and read. Please help yourself.
And hey, now that we have coffee (and often cookies - thanks to L.!), perhaps we can unthaw ourselves and we'll see you all in the New Year on Saturdays at 10 am by the coffee pot in the "social shed". All diggers welcome!!! Wear your gardening parkas.(grin!)
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Meanwhile, happy seed decision making and catalogue reading (and cookie baking - click the COMMENT word below to see recipe!)
Best, J.
Here's a recipe that was asked for at the garden.
ReplyDeleteRice Crispy Oatmeal cookies - 3 doz
CREAM:
1 c butter
1 c white sugar
1 c brown sugar
MIX IN:
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
SIFT & ADD:
1+3/4 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tst baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
misc. nutmeg, cinnamon, your choice.
MIX IN WELL:
1 c oatmeal
THEN ADD:
2 c rice crispy cereal
1/2 c chopped nuts (sunflower, walnut, almond)
Space well on ungreased sheets, using 1+1/2 inch balls. Cookies will spread. Cool before lifting.
Bake 350 for 10-12 minutes until light brown.
Cookie will continue to bake out of oven, so some raw dough in center is okay.
I cook two cookie sheets at a time side by side, and then recycle same two sheets again, for 3 dozen. Freeze well.
Best J.