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Tag Archives: radishes
Monday Recap: Beans, Greens and Scapes
The garden is giving us lots of green goodies right about now. Like the green garlic for instance, which is starting to bulb up. That’s a good sign, because it means the main garlic crop is sizing up too. We … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardening
Tagged asparagus, beans, bread, Cima di Rapa, garlic scapes, green garlic, honeybees, Monday Recap, radishes, rapini, rye bread, sweet potatoes, tomatoes
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Planting the Fall Garden
It’s early August and that means it’s time to get planting for a fall garden here in Southern Indiana. I managed to get all of the fall brassicas in the ground this week. Most of them went in the fenced … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged broccoli, cabbage, carrots, daikon, fall garden, kale, kohlrabi, radishes
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June Harvests Heating Up
It seems like we’ve had a lot of new items ready for harvest in the last week or so. At least, new for 2013 items! The first blueberries were a welcome sight indeed. The bushes are loaded this year, and … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged blueberries, cucumbers, daikon, garlic scapes, kohlrabi, purslane, radishes
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Breaking Ground, and Finding Treasure
I took advantage of Monday’s warm weather (high near 60F) to work for a bit in the kitchen garden and greenhouse. Before I was finished I had found buried treasure, in the form of carrots! Continue reading
November Harvests
We are finally in a slower period of the harvest season here at Happy Acres. Cooler temps and shorter days have definitely slowed the vegetables growth down, even as the frosts have made some of the harvests sweeter. Like the … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged cold frame, kale, lacinato kale, lettuce, persimmon, radishes, turnips
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