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Tag Archives: squash
Stars of the Garden 2024 – Part 2
I hope you enjoyed reading the first part of my annual garden review, and I’m back again today with the second part. Let’s start with tomatoes, which are a favorite crop here and with many other gardeners too. The weather … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged cucumbers, hot peppers, squash, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini
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Harvest Monday July 29, 2024
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. The weather here of late has been seasonally warm and mostly dry. That has helped most of the summer vegetables to thrive, and I am harvesting … Continue reading
Harvest Monday July 10, 2023
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. This will be a brief harvest report since I have been feeling a bit under the weather the last couple of days. The harvests don’t stop … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged broccoli, cabbage, cucumber, eggplant, kohlrabi, squash, zucchini
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Looking Back on 2022, by the Month
For one of my last posts of the year I thought I would recap some of what I did in 2022, in a month by month format. I started the year harvesting collard greens from the garden. It’s always nice … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged Christmas, collards, compost, fermented food, flowers, hiking, lacto-fermentation, peppers, ratatouille, seed starting, squash, sweet poatoes, tomatoes
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Harvest Monday July 11, 2022
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. We finally got a break from the heat last week, and bit of much needed rain. We are still in a deficit for rainfall, but what … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged blackberries, blueberries, Centercut, eggplant, hibiscus, kohlrabi, Korean squash, skunks, squash
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