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So we have started thinking about this year’s garden (this is Ingrid writing). Since we want to do 100% 100 mile diet for three months – August, September and 1 in the winter – we want to make sure that we plan well in advance. We cleaned out and added compost to 3 areas so far. One area will be for tomato, eggplant, and pepper plants. One will be for herbs and red onions. The third will be for hops – yes, hops. Josh ordered Willamette and Cascade hops from Basement Brew-Haus – a local home brew supply store in Providence. Since Josh has started brewing beer in addition to the cider, we’re going to try hops – we don’t have enough land for the barley or wheat! It’ll be interesting to see how the hops grow.
Back to the gardens. We still need to put together a lettuce, spinach, kale bed. Last year we made a fair amount of salads from our own lettuce. During the 100 mile diet, we use the lettuce like bread – it reminds me of a dish my friend Kristi used to love from PF Chang’s.
We’ll get most of our plants from the Goddard State Park farmers market and The Good Earth. We had good luck with the plants from both places last year. The only plants that didn’t do well last year were the ones I tried to grow from seeds – that’s how we ended up with leeks the size of pencils!
We’ll keep everyone updated on the garden and what we really end up planting.
