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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
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 October 21, 2024
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. With frost in the forecast, I dug all the sweet potatoes last week, and as I feared they did not do well at all this year. … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged AAS Winners, Centercut, hot peppers, parsley, persimmons, sweet potatoes, turnip greens, winter squashes
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June Garden Update
I wanted to give another update on the garden here at Happy Acres. I now have everything planted in the summer vegetable garden, and most everything has been mulched as well. Last week I got the pole beans planted, and … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged beans, no-dig no-till, peppers, pole beans, summer squashes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, winter squashes
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Harvest Monday April 15, 2024
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. It’s salad season here, and lettuce continues to play a big role in many of our meals lately. I cut a couple of smaller heads of … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged asparagus, collard rapini, collards, eclipse, green onions, lettuce, sweet potatoes
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Harvest Monday March 4, 2024
It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. My only harvest again last week was green onions from the greenhouse planting. The greenhouse lettuce should be ready to harvest soon, and I have more … Continue reading

