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Playing Catch-up…or is that ketchup?
As the heat wave and lack of rain continue, much of my time is spent dragging hoses and watering, watering, watering. I’m just trying to keep the potager and the 3 main flower gardens as healthy as I can, but … Continue reading
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July: Monthly review
Another month came to a close recently, but it seems barely noticed. That ritual of tearing off, or turning the calendar page to a new picture has been replaced by just a glance at the date on my phone that … Continue reading
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Tagged gardening, growing your own food, Indiana gardening, kitchen gardens, monthly review, Potager
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Rain is magic!
It’s been strange to listen to the evening news week after week, with the “local” (that is Indianapolis, which is NOT local to us) weatherman bemoaning how wet the summer has been. Lakes in southern Indiana are at record levels … Continue reading
Shallots are in!
Right on schedule, the shallots were ready to harvest. The tops were beginning to dry and had fallen over at the neck. A light tug on one resulted in an easy release from the soil, because the roots had begun … Continue reading
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Tagged growing vegetables, growing your own food, Indiana gardening, kitchen gardens, potager, shallots
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Six on Saturday: July 3
No complaints at all about the harvests in June, but July has begun with an even bigger glut of produce! Today there was a bounty of summer squash, five different varieties. The green basket is “Biet Alpha” cucumbers, and with … Continue reading
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Tagged growing vegetables, growing your own food, Indiana gardening, kitchen gardens, potager, summer squash
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May: Monthly Review
How the days can fly by so quickly becomes ever more mystifying to me as I age. One would assume the days would seem longer, but that just isn’t true. This merry month of May was overall delightful! Our world … Continue reading
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March: Monthly review
It’s late reporting the monthly review for March 2021, but the weather has been so gorgeous that it seemed justifiable to actually GARDEN rather than write about it! Here in north central Indiana, March was warmer than normal, despite some … Continue reading
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Tagged dandelions, growing your own food, harvest, Indiana gardening, monthly review, potager
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Sow rewarding!
The BIG DAY finally arrived! That day which I’ve anticipated all winter long, planned for, wished for, and nervously waited for finally came. There were daffodils blooming in the Front Garden this morning, as I and my tea cup took … Continue reading
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Tagged growing your own food, Indiana gardening, kitchen garden, larkspur, planting peas, potager, shallots, winter seeding
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The seeding is on schedule…but under debate!
While the weather was so frigid, and the days were endless gloom it was a little hard to be motivated to sow seeds. It just seemed foolhardy, since spring was so very far away. And, the memory of last year’s … Continue reading
Lettuce improve our lettuce production!
I admit it. I’ve been stuck in a rut for a while, ordering the same lettuce seeds year after year. There’s good reason for that, of course. Growing the varieties that have proven themselves as reliable and productive in the … Continue reading
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Tagged extending the harvest, growing your own food, Indiana gardening, Lettuce, potager, succession planting
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