Gardening Posts
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The Hungry Mouse’s Holiday Gift Extravaganza continues!
As a special thank you for all your support over the last year-and-a-half, we’re giving away a Nespresso espresso machine, a Cuisinart food processor, and a Vita-Mix blender this month! Details are here.
We’re giving away one prize each week. The first week, Lara from Good Cook Doris won the [...]
How to Grow an Avocado Tree from an Avocado Pit
Did you know that if you plant those pits, you can actually grow your own avocado tree at home? Even though trees rooted like this rarely bear fruit without help (more on that in a little bit), it’s still a ton of fun to plant your own tree and watch it grow. Here’s how.
Prosciutto and Basil Wrapped Chicken Fingers
These chicken fingers are fast food, Mouse-House style. They’re the perfect thing to make when you Just Need To Eat, Like Now (a fairly common occurrence at our place these days, given that we just moved).
Midsummer Harvest
Despite being plagued by the dreaded Tomato Horn Worm (if you’ve ever grown tomatoes, you know how horrifying these beasts are), this summer has been a remarkably good one for my vegetable garden.
Like a lot of the country, Boston’s had a silly amount of rain this season. In fact, as I sat down to write [...]
Tomatoes, Incoming!
I should start figuring out what I’m going to do with all these tomatoes, which look like they’re all going to be ripe at about the same time…
Husky Cherry Tomatoes. I’ll definitely plant these again. They’re by far the sturdiest and lushest tomato plants I’ve ever had.
Health Kick Tomatoes. I haven’t tried this variant before, [...]
