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April 9th, 2005 at 04:14 am

Broke down and went shopping this morning for fresh produce. We were down to our last two carrots and odd orange and lemon or two. I was trying to see just how far I could go with simply cooking out of my pantry and freezer, and did quite well for the most part (last night I made veggie gyros with a lamb substitute I made from tofu, plus ww pitas, homemade hummus, and canned beets). But it was time. Voracious vegetarian family without fresh vegetable matter -- well, that's just not going to work. I was running out of ideas. So this a.m. I ran by our neighborhood mom 'n' pop corner grocery store, and stocked up veggies and fruit of all kinds (including organic bananas for .20 cents a pound and other deals), to the tune of about $40. It turned out to be a lot of food for that price (-- still, how lovely it will be to harvest our own organic garden goodies....!)....

And good news on the gardening front -- the taters are planted! All six varieties (Irish Cobbler, Red Norland, Red Pontiac, Purple Viking, Kennebec, and Green Mountain) in the ground, finally. I also planted collard and cilantro this afternoon. Spinach, lettuce and peas are next. The beds are all fully and totally prepared now -- the soil loose and beautifully worked up, just waiting for seed. We'll try to get in there again in the next several days and finish up with our cool weather crops. I can hardly wait to install the tomato and pepper seedlings I'll be getting from my dad -- but of course that wont be for another month or so. Speaking of my dad, when I mentioned our broken gardening tools to him -- he generously gave us an extra pitchfork he had for keeps, plus a hoe to borrow for the time being. What a nice dad.

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