{"id":22970,"date":"2011-09-09T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=22970"},"modified":"2011-09-09T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T15:54:29","slug":"busy-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=22970","title":{"rendered":"Busy Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to hiking<\/a>, biking<\/a>, swimming, and going to a wedding<\/a> during the long weekend…..<\/p>\n

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\n….I did a bunch of other things around the house during Labor Day, including lots of yard work.<\/p>\n

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\nMy garden exploded from the 90+ degree heat.<\/p>\n

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\nI had so many tomatoes ripen at once I didn’t know what to do with them. I gave some to a coworker who said they were delicious (and they are–I eat them as snacks).<\/p>\n

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\nI made a lot of tomato salads over the weekend. After my swim on Sunday, I made a tomato\/basil\/mozzarella salad a long with baked salmon for lunch. Then for dinner we grilled up steaks, corn on the cob and I made another salad.<\/p>\n

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\nThe salads for dinner were tomatoes, mozzarella and cucumbers this time. It’s time to find recipes for freezable tomato dishes!<\/p>\n

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\nI also have tons of zucchini. A friend gave me the great idea to shred and freeze it. So that’s what I did.<\/p>\n

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\nI shredded three zucchinis and froze about 3.5 cups of it. It will be great for this winter when I want to make things like zucchini bread or zucchini cakes. I have two bags in the freezer now. I will probably add a few more ziplocks by the end of summer. I mean, you can only eat so much<\/em>\u00a0zucchini!!<\/p>\n

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\nWe also had a Groupon about to expire . We went to North Portland to the garden store<\/a> to get some supplies.\u00a0First I got over 2 pounds of Sluggo. I think I have enough to get me through for a few months.<\/p>\n

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\nThen I got 1 pound of bat guano fertilizer for the vegetable garden. It was expensive but primo.<\/p>\n

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\nMichael got the cheapo alfalfa fertilizer for our grass. It was like 50 cents a pound and he got 10 pounds. Hopefully this will restore our dying grass. I picked up a packet of lettuce seeds to see if I can start growing lettuce again for the fall. The lady at the garden store suggested I stagger planting the seeds by a few weeks. So as soon as the 90 degree weather calms down (I give it a week) I’ll plant the first batch of seeds mixed with the bat guano fertilizer. Yum, tasty, huh?<\/p>\n

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\nAdd to the long list of weekend duties: car shopping for Michael and getting together with some friends to plan our weekend camping trip coming up. It will be nice to get away and not have to do chores\/errands for a change. Now on to the fun stuff:<\/em><\/p>\n

The giveaway <\/a><\/span>winner is……………………Entry #2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

BECKY P<\/span><\/a>!<\/span> Email me asap Becky and I’ll give you the promo code
\nand instructions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

QUESTION: If you have a vegetable garden, what do you do with all the EXTRA produce?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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