Gardening for 2012

I took some photos of what's happening in my new young spring garden for this year.

Potatoes are coming up from obviously misplaced potatoes from last season too!

Bread in a Bag Book Two Available!

Now you can buy my second book Bread in a Bag Book Two! 

Planting Season

I planted fava beans and peas the other day, then forgot to water them today and yesterday.   I hope it's cool enough outside for them to just sit and wait for me to water them.  I've been so busy getting my second Bread in a Bag book ready for the publisher.  It should be uploaded to them by tomorrow evening, I hope, and then I will request the proof.  If I'm lucky, I'll actually get the proof by this Saturday.  If that works and all is well, maybe I can have it ready for sale by middle of next week.  Yippee!

Global Sun Oven

I don't own it yet, although I do have a "Cook-it" solar oven, but the Global Sun Oven now has a dehydrating package to go with it.  I'm so excited!!!  I have an excellent dehydrator (Excalibur), but to expand that with solar dehydrating capability is awesome!  I'll have to save my pennies!

See info HERE (this is not the cheapest price...so check around before you buy)

Gardening

I found this great website for knowing how and when to garden: http://sproutrobot.com/elk-grove-ca/planting-calendar/95758#below_plans

Gardening for Soup

My next book will rely on me having great vegetables in my garden, so I plan on planting Feb. 1st everything that I can. Yum!

Gardening 2012

Our garden boxes have been totally stripped, with the exception of some herbs from this past season. We refreshed and amended the soil in the 3 boxes to prepare for the new seeds and plants to be planted sometime in the early Spring.

Bread in a Bag - Available Now

Bread in the Bag is finally available again, new and improved. :)

Bread in a Bag

The book is redone and at the publishers...hopefully to be for sale by next week.  Yippee!

Meanwhile, the only thing alive in the vegetable garden is...oh no, wait, there isn't anything alive in the garden!

Vegetables in Garden Dec 1

Here it is, the beginning of December, and I still picked zucchini and tomatoes and even a green bell pepper from my yard.  Truly the Lord has blessed our garden.  I am so grateful that we have the space in our garden boxes to allow old plants to continue as long as they can.

ReTesting

Please see www.breadinabag.blogspot.com for the latest on my re-testing the breads in my book!

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Bread in the Bag

My Bread in the Bag book has been temporarily "paused" while I do some corrections that were brought to my attention.  Hey, we don't want to make a bread that has too much water in it, do we? No.  :) So I am going through all the recipes again since this is a good opportunity to re-test, and then it will be back "up" for purchase.  The second book is doing great and at the rate I'm going, will be up for sale soon after Bread in a Bag is back!

Time Goes By

I have been working so hard on the second Bread in a Bag book that I haven't had time to do much else.  Fortunately, we're deep into Fall, and my garden is quickly dying out.  This year, I am not going to try to keep winter vegetables going through until January--I'll just let everything die off and the soil will be allowed to rest until I replenish it in early April.  At that time, I'll put in a bunch of bags of good soil, shovel it in and prepare it for the new crop.  Next year we also plan on making sure the plants are companions with each other and that the PH is proper.

As for dehydrating, I am still busy with that as needed.  For example, this week I need to dry more eggs, as the breads/muffins I'm making are making me go through the last batch quite quickly.  I also want to dry more prunes, herbs and perhaps a few more potatoes.

If you have a good garden that you are nourishing through the winter, please write and tell me about it! Ldswoman@yahoo.com or Pemick2@comcast.net.

Don't forget to check out my Bread in a Bag blog!

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Muffins

Check out the Bread in a Bag blog for today's creation!

Bread in a Bag TWO!

Bread in a Bag Book Two should be done by the New Year, but if not, for certain by Valentine's Day!

Sourdough English Muffins

The bread of the day today, is Sourdough English Muffins.  Turned out wonderful, and ready for Bread in a Bag Book Two.

Bread in a Bag photos

Go to the Bread in a Bag blog and see the photos I posted today of more of the breads I made for Bread in a Bag.  Let me know what you think!

Canning Spaghetti Sauce

I canned 10 quarts of spaghetti sauce today.  I love it!