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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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Collard Kraut and Other Fermenting
This is the time of year I typically ferment a lot of vegetables from the garden. The cool fall weather provides good growing conditions for things like cabbage, kohlrabi and radishes, all of which are tasty when fermented. This year … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Preserving
Tagged collards, daikon radish, gochugaru, kimchi, lacto-fermentation, napa cabbage
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Harvest Monday October 28, 2019
It’s time for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. The fall veggies are the main focus of my harvests now. I cut a few collard greens to make a test batch of the leaves fermented. If I … Continue reading
Another Greenhouse Update
The new greenhouse is up and ready to use, and I’ve been putting the finishing touches on it the last couple of weeks. The old house was 8×12 feet, and the new one is 8×16 feet which gives me more … Continue reading
Harvest Monday October 21, 2019
Once again it’s time for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. With colder weather and more frost predicted, my first order of business last week was to get the sweet potatoes dug. I did this in three … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged broccoli, collards, eggplant, kale, peppers, smoking, sweet potatoes
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Harvest Monday October 14, 2019
Once again it’s time for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. Last week we had our first frost, largely unpredicted until the last minute. That had me scurrying around Friday harvesting all the peppers and squash I … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged cabbage, collards, greenhouse, greens, hot peppers, kale, kimchi, peppers, pole beans, winter squash
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