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Tag Archives: squash
Harvest Monday July 6, 2020
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. We’re getting plenty to eat from the garden these days, including many of the same veggies and fruits from last week. The squashes are abundant, and … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged blackberries, blueberries, cucumbers, eggplant, kohlrabi, squash, zucchini
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Hand-Pollinating Squash
Most gardeners don’t worry much about how their vegetables get pollinated. For one thing, almost all of the popular vegetables people grow do just fine without any help from the gardener. But squashes can sometime be an exception to that. … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged bees, hand pollination, pollination, squash, summer squash, winter squash
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Harvest Monday June 22, 2020
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. It’s now officially summer, and the harvests show it. The summer squashes are bearing almost daily now. Safari is a striped zucchini I’m trialing here this … Continue reading
Harvest Monday September 9, 2019
Once again it’s time for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. And I’ll get straight to the harvests. Peppers are continuing to ripen here, especially the hot ones. I got enough of them to start another batch … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged beans, collards, hot peppers, hot sauce, lacto-fermentation, peppers, skinks, sourdough bread, squash, winter squash
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Variety Spotlight: Centercut Squash
This is the latest in a series of posts that I’ve done about my favorite varieties of fruits, vegetables and herbs we grow at Happy Acres. To see my other Spotlights, and those from other garden bloggers, visit the Variety Spotlights … Continue reading

