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Strawberries are the new tomato | Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise
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Our Life in Leaves. Mike and Roxie's Vegetable Paradise. Adventures in Kansas City Gardening. Laquo; Suppose we change the subject. Strawberries are the new tomato. May 25, 2014 by roxiemike. That realization hit me this year as I sampled the first of what is going to be a bumper crop of strawberries from the new bed we started a couple of years ago. Slowly, insidiously, the grocery store strawberry has been lowering my expectations about what a good berry should taste like. I can only guess the reasons ...
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What we’re eating | Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise
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Our Life in Leaves. Mike and Roxie's Vegetable Paradise. Adventures in Kansas City Gardening. What we’re eating. Now that the early crops have come and gone, we’re having a little (a very little) midsummer break. Tomatoes have only just begun to color up, broccoli is in the sideshoot stage and the green beans are blooming again after a little rest from the first big picking. We’ve been getting beets and cucumbers! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). You are co...
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A late summer recap | Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise
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Our Life in Leaves. Mike and Roxie's Vegetable Paradise. Adventures in Kansas City Gardening. Laquo; Greens all summer long. Isn’t that weird? Glean while you can to help the hungry. A late summer recap. September 17, 2013 by roxiemike. After days and days of drought, the rain is finally coming down this morning, Sept. 17. Sigh. The lost opportunities. All summer long, everything has been about a month behind schedule. Usually I would have picked two or three bushels of tomatoes and had them canned b...
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Suppose we change the subject | Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise
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Our Life in Leaves. Mike and Roxie's Vegetable Paradise. Adventures in Kansas City Gardening. Laquo; Chicken sweaters! Strawberries are the new tomato. Suppose we change the subject. March 20, 2014 by roxiemike. All the sports news about March Madness got me thinking about the Mad Hatter, which got me thinking about tea time and the March Hare, which got me thinking again about the saying, “Mad as a March Hare.”. I won’t lie. I do sometimes get tired of gardening. We’ve been doing it ...Now, time for tea.
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Chicken sweaters! | Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise
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Our Life in Leaves. Mike and Roxie's Vegetable Paradise. Adventures in Kansas City Gardening. Laquo; Glean while you can to help the hungry. Suppose we change the subject. March 7, 2014 by roxiemike. No I’m not kidding! It’s a thing! One of my friends retweeted this picture of how modern day chickens survive winters like these. Apparently you can find them on Etsy. And there’s a group in the UK. Suppose they have patterns for egg sweaters as well? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Eat Like Kings | Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise
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Our Life in Leaves. Mike and Roxie's Vegetable Paradise. Adventures in Kansas City Gardening. The way we see it, a garden is a celebration. You work hard, but then you get to eat like kings. Grocery store food? On this page, we share what we’re doing with our produce so far this year. June 21, 2011. Newer Peas and Potatoes. 3 small to medium garden potatoes, scrubbed–a little less than 1 lb. 5 thin slices pancetta. 1 1/2 cups fresh peas, shelled. A good handful of fresh dill, cut up a bit. Now put the co...
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What a great garden tour | Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise
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Our Life in Leaves. Mike and Roxie's Vegetable Paradise. Adventures in Kansas City Gardening. Laquo; When it comes to cherries, grow your own. Greens all summer long. Isn’t that weird? What a great garden tour. June 25, 2013 by roxiemike. We’re a little later than we wanted to be with this, thanks to come connectivity issues at our house (Thanks, Time Warner). Anyway, here are our highlights. I’ll try and get a slide show up on Facebook as well. Switzer Neighborhood Farm Westside Community Gardens. This ...
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What’s Growing | Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise
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Our Life in Leaves. Mike and Roxie's Vegetable Paradise. Adventures in Kansas City Gardening. Our garden is a 30 by 50 plot in a sunny spot on the northeast side of our house. In the ground as of March 23, 2010, are:. Potatoes (Red Pontiac, Yukon Gold, and a white variety whose name slips my mind). Sugar Snap peas, Maestro peas. Oregon Sugar Pod peas (edible podded). On April 22, 2009 at 10:21 am. Yes, we grow some vegetables along with the milk « Mike and Roxie’s Vegetable Paradise. Find our mention in ...
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Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise | Adventures in Kansas City Gardening | Page 2
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Our Life in Leaves. Mike and Roxie's Vegetable Paradise. Adventures in Kansas City Gardening. When it comes to cherries, grow your own. May 27, 2013 by roxiemike. Call them what you will. Pie cherries, tart cherries, sour. We call them good eating, but you never find them fresh in supermarkets around Kansas City. Sweet cherries, yes. Tart cherries, hardly ever even at the farmers market. I never understood why until hearing this story. I can’t recall when we got our first harvest off of it. A c...Tedious...
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roxiemike | Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise
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Our Life in Leaves. Mike and Roxie's Vegetable Paradise. Adventures in Kansas City Gardening. About: Mike and Roxie Hendricks and Hammill. Mike Hendricks is a reporter for The Kansas City Star. His wife, Roxie Hammill, is a piano teacher, blogger, former reporter and composer. They both are avid gardeners. Posts by Mike and Roxie Hendricks and Hammill:. May 25, 2014. Strawberries are the new tomato. March 20, 2014. Suppose we change the subject. March 7, 2014. November 3, 2013. September 17, 2013. MU Ext...
