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Hi, I'm Dave and thanks for visiting. I garden in Zone 6b in southern Indiana, and I blog here about gardening, nature and food.
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Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to table
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Author Archives: Dave @ HappyAcres
2019 Sweet Potato Review
The annual sweet potato harvest is always a much anticipated event here at Happy Acres. They are one of our staple crops for storage, and usually do quite well here for me. In 2018 The 51 plants I planted produced … Continue reading
Harvest Monday November 25, 2019
It’s time for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. This will be a quick post for me as harvests are pretty slim at the moment. However I dug some horseradish roots which provided a small but pungent … Continue reading
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Tagged collards, horseradish, kraut, lacto-fermentation, pumpkin
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Harvest Monday November 18, 2019
It’s time for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. It was a light harvest week here. I cut a couple of heads of Point One cabbage Monday before the rain turned to snow. They weren’t the biggest, … Continue reading
Harvest Monday November 11, 2019
It’s time for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. I’ve been fighting a cold bug all week and not wanting to go outside any more than necessary. Having said that, with a hard freeze and record cold … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, broccoli, collards, daikon radish, purple sprouting broccoli
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Harvest Monday November 4, 2019
It’s time for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. We got our first hard freeze last week, along with a couple of heavy frosts. The frost crystals were beautiful on the fall brassicas. and should make the … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged broccoli, cabbage, collards, eggplant, neck pumpkins, peppers, pole beans
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