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June Garden Update: Part 2
Here’s the second half of my early June garden update. You can see the first half here. We’re up to bed 7. This is my experiment with lasagna gardening, where I covered the bed with newspaper to kill...
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End of June Garden Update
Above the garden at the end of June. I’ll update about a few of the problem areas and a few good spots. In April when I planted the onions, I was unsure how the straw mulch would work out. It has...
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August Garden
The garden has been fairly dry lately. While rain has come through, most of it has missed us and we’ve just got 1/10th an inch in the past week and a half. I’ve been watering with the rain barrels and...
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Harvest Monday 9/12/11
Here are this week’s harvests. Monday: a very odd carrot. This is the first carrot I’ve pulled and it went into a fresh tomato soup. Tuesday: Chard and tomatoes for a quiche Wednesday I made pickles...
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Harvest Monday 9/19
Here are a few harvests from earlier this week. I made salsa so I picked a lot of peppers. I bought a 1/2 bushel of tomatoes to can since mine aren’t producing as much as last year. Friday and Saturday...
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Harvest Monday 9/26/11
Though temperatures have been above normal for the past week, the garden is getting less sun and slowing down. The tomato vines were affected by frost two weeks ago and the green tomatoes were falling...
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2011 Garden Reflections: Cucumbers & Squash
As I look back on this second year in this garden, some of last year’s successes were repeated, others were not. Some of last year’s failures were corrected, others were not. Here are part of my...
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Pumpkin & Chickpea Soup
Last week I finally cut into my one large Marina di Chioggia winter squash. Two quarters went into the oven to be roasted and pureed. I froze some of the puree and used some in a pumpkin risotto. We...
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Harvest Monday
This past weekend I dug all the potatoes. I grew red fingerling, Satina, a yellow skin-yellow fleshed potato, and Katahdin, a buff/white fleshed potato. The Katahdin had some very nice large potatoes...
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Technicolor Dinner
While making dinner tonight, I was struck by the vibrant orange color of the dough. It’s amazing that this color that we often see in food-dye filled mac & cheese, can come naturally from some good...
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