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We’ve had really the best summer possible. The wet spring meant great germination (and even enough cool weather for peas!) and although it’s been dry since June, it’s also been hot enough for the tomatoes, peppers and winter squash to … Continue reading
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Tagged bean vines, cucumber trellis, organic garden, produce, vegetable growing
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August: Preparing for Round Two
Thursday was a cleaning day in the garden. I pulled out the pea vines and the last of the beets (they really weren’t going to get any bigger) and turned over the beet and garlic beds to prepare them for fall planting. … Continue reading
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Tagged food gardening, growing potatoes, organic potatoes, potatoes
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Getting All Foodie
It is the year of beans. The wall o’ beans has been putting out copious amounts of purple, yellow, and striated beans, and there have been green bush beans, too. Even with the deer or rabbits nibbling the tops, I am … Continue reading
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Tagged beans, canning, canning beans, dilly beans, Emeril rosemary-lemon beans, green beans, hot sauce, nasturtium, nasturtium hot sauce
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Berry Hoarders
When that zombie apocalypse I’ve been predicting comes to pass, do you know who will be ready? Middle-class moms who have decided they want their families to eat healthier, that’s who. If you want to know how to prepare, go … Continue reading
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Tagged berry picking, blueberries, blueberry picking
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Squash
I’m not sure what’s going on with my winter squash. They look weird. I planted four kinds of winter squash this year: butternut, delicata (the queen of squash), tahitian (supposed to be a long-necked butternut) and a couple seeds called “Cool Old … Continue reading
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Tagged banana squash, cool old squash, cross-pollination in squash, Gete-okosomin, growing squash, organic vegetables
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Salmon and Peas in Cream Sauce
One of the best things about summer, when there’s so much produce, is sitting around with an ingredient in mind and figuring out what I want to do with it and then how to make it happen. It might be … Continue reading
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Tagged garden peas recipe, pasta with cream sauce, peas and salmon, vegetable gardening
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July Garden Tour
I keep hearing how everything is late this year, but you couldn’t tell by me. Everything this summer has crept up on me. I wasn’t ready for my birthday in June. July 4 went by like a blur. And in … Continue reading
Posted in garden, the Farm
Tagged beans, green arrow peas, mid-summer vegetables, organic gardening, organic vegetable growing, pea pesto, peas, summer, vegetable gardening
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Two Beet Salads
Roots are really fun to grow. It’s very satisfying when it’s time to start pulling up beets and radishes by the fistful. When a tall, thick carrot comes out of the ground, it’s a miracle. We’ve been making do with … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian beet slaw, beet salad, beet slaw, beets, fennel, feta, fresh beets, Mediterranean beet salad
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The Berry is Always Sweeter…
Lucky for me, the strawberries also waited for me to get back from Chicago. Today I went out to Produce Acres to pick my year’s share! Picking strawberries definitely reveals one’s outlook on life. Me? I was convinced right away that … Continue reading
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Tagged strawberries, strawberry picking
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Back in the Garden
I was gone a week. A full week. Before I left I watered everything as much as I could, typed out instructions labeled: watering, weeding, harvesting, and prayed for rain. When I left there were tiny beets in the ground … Continue reading
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Tagged beets, broccoli, food gardening, organic gardening, radish
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