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~~~Gardening—Step #1~~~

~~~Gardening—Step #1~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Maybe this isn’t Step #1…maybe researching & buying the seeds was….. Maybe the garden won’t happen this Spring….. …..but discing was a necessary next step….. …..and ground preparations….. I’ve figured out where I want the garden….. I already got the welded metal panels to (hopefully) deter the deer…the chickens and………….the goats….. Our friend Ralph came over with his wonderful/ancient tractor…with it’s wonderful/ancient accoutrements….. I thought he was just going to disc the ground…

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~~~Seed Surplus~~~

~~~Seed Surplus~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Well…you already know…I bought a lot of seeds….. …..probably too many….. …..(maybe not?)….. …..(probably)….. But then…I was talking to a gardener-friend of mine…and she asked why I didn’t get more peas…..(?)….. …..Not enough peas…you say?….. …..I can solve that….. …..Easy Peasy…..(Pea-sy…HA!)… Then she asked…why I didn’t include any sweet potatoes…..(?)…..(I didn’t?)….. She said all I needed to do…was to go to the organic section of the produce department at our local Winn Dixie……..

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Nixtamalization

Nixtamalization

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** *****Nixtamalization…huh?***** I’ve already forgotten what it means….. Let me go look it up again….. ***How To Nixtamal-itize stuff***…..(sp?)….. Who couldn’t resist a word like this?….. Say it slowly….. Now say it five times fast….. …..(It might just have to go on my list of “favorite words to say”…right alongside “Iditarod” and “Onomatopoeia” and “Saponification”)….. ***Oooh…More on Nixtamal-izing*** …..it’s my new fun word…it begs to be used…..just like saponification….. …..(***But What Does That Sapo-Word…

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