Monday, January 12, 2009 - in Garden
My calendar told me to plan my garden this weekend. I dug out my handy dandy Clyde’s Vegetable Planting Slide Chart to see when I would really have to plan the garden. I used the average last frost date of this part of the USA that I live in...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 - in Garden
Harvest sweet potatoes before the vines are frostbitten at the latest. Frost on the vines can damage your crop, so if the vines get killed back by frost, cut the vines. Harvest the potatoes as soon as possible after cutting the vines because cold weather can adversely affect the storage...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - in Garden
For the past couple of weeks, I have tried to take photographs of my tomato plants but in the photographs they look like big green blobs. Tonight while dumping some tomato peelings on the compost pile after dark, I looked at the plants with the flashlight and noticed how one...
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Friday, July 11, 2008 - in Garden
This is today’s harvest from my small backyard garden. From this we will eat the beans for dinner. I will dry the okra, zucchini, red clover, and spearmint. By the end of the day, I will have eaten the tomatoes. Since taking this photograph, they are already reduced by half....
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - in Garden
[GU = Garden Update] This is a sweet potato update. Because I posted how I plant sweet potatoes, it seems appropriate that I should post an update on their progress. If you want to see the first post, it is here: Planting Sweet Potatoes. The sweet potatoes have been in...
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