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First Frost…
Our average first frost here is October 5, and surprisingly it arrived exactly on that date! I’d covered some things for a possible frost on Friday night, but it didn’t get that cold. The covers were left on Saturday, a … Continue reading
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Tagged First frost, growing your own food, Indiana gardening, potager, sweet potatoes
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September: Monthly Review
The colors are definitely changing, and it’s easy to see that Mother Nature’s paint brush has been busy laying browns and rusts over the once-green leaves on trees and shrubs. In the potager, most of the cucurbits’ leaves are brown … Continue reading
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Tagged growing your own food, harvest totals, Indiana gardening, kitchen garden, monthy review, potager, September
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Focus on the positive
First of all, thank you to all those wonderful readers who took time to make such thoughtful comments on my last post. Reading them did improve my outlook, and gave me much to think about. The downward spiral continues, but … Continue reading
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Tagged fall crops, growing your own food, harvest, Indiana gardening, kitchen garden, potager
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Pruning the tomatoes
Fall is definitely in the air, and it’s mid-September already. I finally decided to prune the indeterminate tomatoes that are still doing well, even though the predictions are that we won’t get a frost until the end of October. Our … Continue reading
My pick: Tomato “Chef’s Choice Orange!”
I’m one of those “strange” people who can’t eat raw tomatoes, at least if they are red. They produce a rash inside and outside my mouth that burns. Fortunately, I can eat orange, yellow, or pink tomatoes that are lower … Continue reading
Today’s harvest
August is the bountiful month, when the harvest journal entries for each day nearly fill a page. The colors of produce always amaze me. Just pulling all the baskets together is a feast for the eyes. Purple beans, glossy scarlet … Continue reading
Lettuce Save Seed!
I’ve been reading so many posts about saving seeds, and so many of them have mis-information that must be confusing to new gardeners especially. Admittedly, I don’t save many seeds now, but back in my homesteading days I did. It … Continue reading
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Tagged cross pollination, Goldfinch, growing your own food, Indiana gardening, kitchen gardens, Lettuce, potager, Saving seeds
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Six on Saturday: July 18, 2020
How can it be Saturday again…already? It’s been another hot, humid, sometimes windy week. The daylilies are coming and going at rapid rate, the crops that like hot weather are coming along as long as they get water, and I’m … Continue reading
Six on Saturday: July 11, 2020
This “Six on Saturday” is simple…six things that made me smile this morning! Tomato “Sun Sugar” is one of my favorites, and often the first to ripen. Red tomatoes give me a rash, but I can eat these luscious orange … Continue reading
Thinning the carrots
The first planting of carrots actually looked good from the start, and have been ready to use for three weeks or so (or earlier if I wanted baby carrots.) And so when the second planting, shown below, was coming along, … Continue reading
