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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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Harvest Monday: Overdrive
The garden seemed to go into overdrive this week. The kitchen island has been loaded up every day with goodies from the garden, and the freezer is filling up fast. The blueberries and blackberries are hitting their peak, even as … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged black, blueberries, cucumber, fruit, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes
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Hot Harvest Monday
There’s only one way to describe the weather here lately, and that’s HOT-T-T! High temps are supposed to be in the mid 90s all week, hitting 96F today. That has meant gardening chores have to be done as early as … Continue reading
Church Garden Update
Our church garden is coming along nicely now, producing our first harvests last week. We took squash and cukes to two different organizations. The harvests are still small, but they will grow in size as the plants get bigger. All … Continue reading
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Tagged cucumber, Food, food pantry garden, squash, tomatoes, volunteering
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Harvest Monday: Garlic, Squash, and a Marsupial
When I went to check on the garlic beds yesterday I was shocked to find that some of it was ready to be dug. It’s exactly two weeks before I started digging last year, but then I remembered that I … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged blueberries, broccoli, cabbage, Cats, cucumber, fruit, garlic, raspberry, strawberries
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Harvest Monday: June Bounty
I do love this time of year in the garden, when the fruit is ripening and both spring and summer veggies are in the harvest bucket. Last week we enjoyed the last of the spring strawberries along with the first … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged blueberries, broccoli, cucumber, fruit, lettuce, raspberry, strawberry
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