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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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Saturday Spotlight: Oakleaf Lettuce
Liz at Suburban Tomato recently started this alliteratively named series to spotlight individual varieties of produce she is growing in her suburban Melbourne garden. She also invited other garden bloggers to join in, and since I thought it was a … Continue reading
October Harvests: Greens, Roots, and…Green Beans?
By this time of year the pace of the garden here has usually slowed down quite a bit. And that slower pace is always a welcome relief to me! Greens and root vegetables often play a starring role at this … Continue reading
Lettuce On Wheels, Salad Box Style
This is another installment about growing vegetables in containers. Click on Gardening Tutorials to see more in the series. People who are familiar with restaurant lingo will know that ordering something ‘on wheels’ means you’re taking it with you, the … Continue reading
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Tagged arugula, containers, greenhouse, greens, lettuce, salad box, salads
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Mini Salad Boxes
These growing boxes are a smaller sized version of the bigger salad boxes I made a couple of weeks ago. I made them from 16 inch long pieces of 1×4 and 2×4 lumber. The inside dimensions are 13 inches wide, … Continue reading
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Tagged containers, greenhouse, greens, homemade, lettuce, salad, salad box
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Early March Harvests
During the first week in March we managed to harvest around 1-1/2 pounds of greens for salads and cooking. We’ve been averaging a little over a pound of greens each week so far in 2011, which has been enough to … Continue reading
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Tagged cold frame, garlic, greenhouse, greens, lettuce, salad, salad box, spinach, winter
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