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Tag Archives: summer squash
Harvest Monday July 5, 2021
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. It’s still berry season for us, and we have been enjoying the fresh blueberries and blackberries on a daily basis. We generally only harvest every other … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged Avocado squash, blackberries, blueberries, cab bage, Centercut, eggplant, lettuce, summer squash, zucchini
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Harvest Monday June 28, 2021
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. I’ve got a lot of photos this week, so I’m going to do a few of them in collages so I can share as many as … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged blackberries, blueberries, eggplant, kohlrabi, lettuce, summer squash, tomatoes, zucchini
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Harvest Monday July 20, 2020
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. We’re keeping well supplied with squash and cucumbers these days, and have had enough to start giving them away. I’ve been freezing squash for use later, … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged blackberries, Centercut, cucumbers, eggplant, green beans, summer squash, tomatoes, zucchini
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Getting Squashed in July
It happens every year about this time, sometimes a bit earlier. Suddenly, we are up to our ears in squash! That’s not a bad thing though. In addition to eating them fresh, I freeze a lot for use later in … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged hand pollination, honeybees, summer squash, trellis, tromboncino, winter squash
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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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