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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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Tag Archives: sweet potatoes
Harvest Monday October 19, 2020
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. With a frost and possible freeze predicted for Friday morning, I spent much of the week harvesting tender vegetables. That included digging the sweet potatoes, which … Continue reading
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Tagged eggplant, hot peppers, neck pumpkins, peppers, sweet potatoes, turnips
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Harvest Monday March 9, 2020
It’s time for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. It’s more of the same here in the way of harvests. The Rudolph broccoli was the last of the PSB varieties to head up, and it made a … Continue reading
2019 Sweet Potato Review
The annual sweet potato harvest is always a much anticipated event here at Happy Acres. They are one of our staple crops for storage, and usually do quite well here for me. In 2018 The 51 plants I planted produced … Continue reading
Harvest Monday October 21, 2019
Once again it’s time for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. With colder weather and more frost predicted, my first order of business last week was to get the sweet potatoes dug. I did this in three … Continue reading
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Tagged broccoli, collards, eggplant, kale, peppers, smoking, sweet potatoes
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Photo Friday: 2018 By the Month
Lacking any real activity in the garden this time of year, I thought I would share some photos today to show some of my 2018 activities. January saw us undertaking a big kitchen renovation. We had been planning this for … Continue reading
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Tagged Ace, Ally, asparagus, Cats, greasy beans, homemade, kimchi, kitchen makeover, lacto-fermentation, ornaments, sauerkraut, seed starting, sweet potatoes
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