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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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Sweet Potatoes, Green Tomatoes and Persimmons
Our first frost forecasts came a bit earlier than usual this year. Frosty weather, or the threat of frost, always has me scrambling to harvest all the sensitive crops like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and sweet potatoes. Which also means I … Continue reading
Fruits For All Seasons
One of the things we were excited about when my wife and I first saw Happy Acres were the three mature blueberry bushes, along with the apple and peach trees. It was like buying a ready made mini fruit farm! … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, currrants, figs, fruit, honeyberries, pawpaw, peaches, persimmon, raspberries
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Surprise Harvest(s)
I love surprises, especially when they are edible. This week I got two different surprises, both involving root crops. The first one came when I was tilling the lasagna bed to get it prepared for planting next spring. I grew … Continue reading
Pumpkin and Persimmon Time
This week was a week of firsts for me. I was able to finally harvest a couple of things that are new to me, at least in our garden. Part of the fun of gardening is trying new things. At … 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
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Tagged eggplant, Gold Nugget, peppers, persimmon, pumpkin, squash, tomatoes
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