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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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Tag Archives: Gold Nugget
August Harvests
This time of year, the garden is really keeping us busy with harvesting and processing. Tomatoes are coming on full blast, which means we have been dehydrating, slow roasting, freezing, making sauce, and eating them like crazy! This week we … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardening
Tagged beans, blackberries, cucumber, Delicata, eggplant, Gold Nugget, okra, spaghetti squash, squash, tomatoes, winter squash
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Summer Vegetable Garden
Real summer is here, and it is here with a vengeance. The heat wave that has scorched much of the U.S. has us firmly in its grip as well. But the garden is producing pretty well despite the heat and … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged Asian greens, bacterial wilt, blackberries, cucumber, eggplant, endive, Gold Nugget, gourds, pole beans, squash, tomatoes, yardlong beans
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Weighing In
The year isn’t nearly over yet, but our experiment this year of weighing all our harvests has proven to be a real eye opener. This week we hit the 800 pound mark, which is a lot of food anyway you … Continue reading
Past and Future Harvests
The summer vegetable harvests have slowed down considerably here, and I must say we have mixed emotions about that. The heat and drought have definitely made for a lousy year for peppers and eggplant, and the pole beans suffered as … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged eggplant, Gold Nugget, peppers, persimmon, pumpkin, squash, tomatoes
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