I have garden tomatoes coming out my ears right about now (talk about problems to have, right?!) -- so figured some of you might be in the same boat. Tomatoes, peppers, and a couple of fresh herbs are about the only things I manage to grow with any View Post
How to Make Fire Roasted Tomatoes in the Oven
This is an update of a 2014 post with some newer photos -- but I've only changed my method up slightly from the original post and have been making homemade fire roasted tomatoes this way every year since, using Roma tomatoes from my garden. They're View Post
Ten Fresh Garden Tomato Recipes
How about some recipe ideas to help use up some of those fresh garden tomatoes this year? (More ideas will be forthcoming over the next couple of months, I'm sure -- I'm scratching up recipes with mine all the time lately!) There are so many great View Post
DIY Garden Bed Kit — Use fence boards to make one on the cheap!
Today MashupDad has a DIY Garden Bed Kit project for you. So take it away, MashupDad! DIY Garden Bed Kit -- Using Fence Boards A few years ago for Mother's Day, I set up a couple of garden beds for Mashup Mom. These beds are located on the View Post
Perpetual Salad Colander — a fun DIY gift idea!
Last week I was walking through my local produce store and saw that they were selling "snip 'n gro" salad colanders for $15.99. What a cool idea, right?! So, I thought it would be fun to put together a perpetual salad colander as a super useful and View Post
Spring Has Sprung, So what are you planting this year?
It's really starting to feel like spring around here these days! This past weekend one of my neighbors dug up a bunch of chives to give away, so I planted a few of those in a little corner of our garden along with some green onions I had regrowing in View Post