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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: greens
Harvest Monday, March 8, 2010
This week’s harvest added some baby spinach to the mix. I made a wilted spinach salad with some hot balsamic vinaigrette, orange sections and walnuts. The spinach was harvested when I did the final thinning from one of the greenhouse … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian greens, cold frame, Gardening, greens, lettuce, salad, spinach
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Salads To Go
One of the new things I tried last year was planting lettuce and other greens in plastic window boxes. I did it because I was doing a seminar on vegetable gardening and I needed something portable to illustrate how easy … Continue reading
Harvest Monday, March 1, 2010
After reading about other gardeners and their Harvest Mondays for a while now, I have decided to join in with my own harvests. Every Monday over at Daphne’s Dandelions folks link to posts about their weekly harvests. Thanks to Daphne … Continue reading
Salad Garden Update
Last month I wrote about the seedlings I started for our March salads. I thought I would give a little update on how they are doing. The seeds were started in this 200-cell plug flat. After one week, they were … Continue reading
January Seeds Bring March Salads
At a presentation I gave last year on growing greens I was asked how I managed succession planting for lettuce. My answer was “always have seedlings ready to plant”. To do that, I start lettuce seeds indoors every 3-4 weeks. … Continue reading
