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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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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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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
