Lexie's Gardens

Lexie's Gardens Providing herbs and vegetables to local gardeners

Today is not the best day for gardening, but it is the best and LAST day to buy plants at Lexie’s Gardens. We’re open un...
06/02/2024

Today is not the best day for gardening, but it is the best and LAST day to buy plants at Lexie’s Gardens. We’re open until five and then CLOSED for the season. 🍅 🫑 🌶 🍆🥒

Last day for buying herb and vegetable starts at Lexie’s Gardens for 2024 is Sunday, June 2nd. There is still a good sel...
05/31/2024

Last day for buying herb and vegetable starts at Lexie’s Gardens for 2024 is Sunday, June 2nd. There is still a good selection left. The plants look beautiful!
Hours:
Friday and Saturday 10-6
Sunday 10-5

Lexie’s Gardens is all about food. This is a lovely book! My new favorite cookbook. It’s not a typical cookbook, but mor...
05/20/2024

Lexie’s Gardens is all about food.

This is a lovely book! My new favorite cookbook. It’s not a typical cookbook, but more a method of cooking, more how to cook with the basic ingredients you have
- good ingredients, real food. You’re not cooking for only one meal, but how to use ‘leftovers’ for subsequent meals. Good ideas to take your cooking skills to the next level. (Thanks Rosie for a beautiful gift!)

The first little cucumber blossom growing in the greenhouse! 🥒
05/19/2024

The first little cucumber blossom growing in the greenhouse! 🥒

Now that the cucumbers have germinated, we can imagine what we can make with them once they grow. Here are two pickles r...
05/14/2024

Now that the cucumbers have germinated, we can imagine what we can make with them once they grow. Here are two pickles recipes that are favorites in my family. No pictures of them because I’m out of pickles already. 😒

Small Sweet Pickles
Soak very small - about 2 inch - whole cucumbers in salt water (1/3 cup salt per gallon of water) overnight. In the morning, drain salt water from cucumbers.
Pack cucumbers into jars. Bring brine to a boil. Pour into jars and process to seal in your preferred method.

2 quarts water
5 1/2 cups vinegar
1 quart sugar
1 1/2 Tablespoon salt
1 1/2 Tablespoon allspice berries

Sweet Garlic Dills
3 cups sugar
2 cups vinegar
2 cups water
2 Tablespoons salt
Garlic
Dill
Combine and bring the first four ingredients to a boil. Put one or two garlic cloves and 1 head of dill in quart jar. Slice medium cucumbers 1/2 inch thick. Pack into jars and fill with syrup. Process to seal in your preferred method.

These handsome guys didn’t like cucumbers until they ate garden-fresh ones - peeled, sliced lengthwise and salted. Yum!
05/12/2024

These handsome guys didn’t like cucumbers until they ate garden-fresh ones - peeled, sliced lengthwise and salted. Yum!

Zara picking radishes in the greenhouse.
05/11/2024

Zara picking radishes in the greenhouse.

Why do we work so hard growing our own food? I just finished listening to this book. The author lays out the history and...
05/10/2024

Why do we work so hard growing our own food? I just finished listening to this book. The author lays out the history and process of processed “food”. If you’re interested in food as I am, you would be informed and intrigued by the information.

A quick review on what’s available at Lexie’s Gardens. We focus primarily on food gardening, starting a varied selection...
05/09/2024

A quick review on what’s available at Lexie’s Gardens. We focus primarily on food gardening, starting a varied selection of heirloom, open-pollinated tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, ground cherries and culinary herbs and usually a new variety or two to keep things interesting. There are seed potatoes and onion sets and a seed rack with Seed Saver’s seeds. We have some flowers to attract beneficial insects and pollinators. And finally a good selection of medicinal herbs. So, food for health and healing. And of course, flavor. 😋

Pictures of past harvests. Why we do this!
05/08/2024

Pictures of past harvests. Why we do this!

Besides the usual varieties of tomatoes we grow at Lexie’s Gardens, (see earlier post)we are excited to try four new one...
05/05/2024

Besides the usual varieties of tomatoes we grow at Lexie’s Gardens, (see earlier post)
we are excited to try four new ones. Two are dwarf varieties for smaller spaces. Mystic Lady is a mid-season pink tomato which produces lots of 4-6 oz. fruit with a well-balanced pleasant flavor. Maura’s Cardinal is also a dwarf which grows 6-8 oz. red fruit with a delicious flavor. Moskvich is one of the earliest varieties - indeterminate - producing 4-6 oz red fruit throughout the season. The fourth, Sioux, is indeterminate, producing an all-purpose red tomato with mild, slightly sweet flavor. We’re looking forward to growing and tasting!

Lexie’s Gardens is now open. Seed Savers seeds, seed potatoes- Red Pontiac and Yukon Gold, onion sets- a yellow storage ...
05/03/2024

Lexie’s Gardens is now open. Seed Savers seeds, seed potatoes- Red Pontiac and Yukon Gold, onion sets- a yellow storage one.

47738 250th St. Garretson SD 57030

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47738 250th Street
Garretson, SD
57030

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Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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