Garden Update- July

The garden is looking great! All our hard work paid off. This picture was taken July 21st:

The heirloom Brandywine tomatoes I got are doing very well (super tall!) though they don't have many tomatoes yet. I plan on collecting and storing seeds for planting next year from these heirloom tomatoes. This will be my first attempt at seed collecting/storing/planting so we'll see how it goes.

I picked these tomato plants up locally and they already have so many green tomatoes for frying:

My indoor tomatoes, which are hanging in the arbor right now are starting to ripen:

I hope they do this well inside this winter.

We have 1 broccoli plant and 1 cabbage plant that I picked up locally jsut to see how they'd do. We also have some onions, carrots and a few pepper plants.

I think I may have the tallest oregano ever! I'm not sure if this picture does it justice or not. The sad thing is that I never even use oregano! So, send me your recipes using oregano. Those with tomatoes and oregano would be even better. christi@differentdaisy.com

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Spinach Lentil Soup

When you have extra spinach laying around or a bag of spring mix that's about to go bad, use it for this recipe.

You will need:

A can of lentil soup and some spinach

Open a can of lentil soup, you can make it yourself if you feel like working. Put it on the stove, add your spinach and let simmer on low for about 20-30 minutes.

This is really a great soup. Wuick and easy too!

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Slow Turtle Relocation Program

Yes, I'm one of those people you see in the middle of the road scooping up a slow turtle for relocation to the country. I picked this little guy/gal up today. It's so small, about the size of the palm of my hand.

Too cute not to take a picture!

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