Welcome to Happy Acres!
Dave
Southern Indiana
USDA Zone 6bAn organic (mostly) gardener shares his thoughts about gardening, nature, food and striving to be self-sufficient.
NOW READING
-
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. -
Category Archives: Gardening
How Hardy Is Lettuce – 2011 Trials
Last year I tested several different varieties of lettuce, plus a few other greens, to try and determine just how much cold weather they can take. I grew the lettuce and greens in my cold frames, which were covered with … Continue reading
November Harvests
I love gardening this time of year. The pace is slower for one thing. And most of the vegetables don’t demand daily harvesting. I did cut quite a bit of broccoli the other day before our first hard freeze – … Continue reading
Happy Yummy Pepper Seed Giveaway
I’ve got seeds of a new and unusual pepper variety I would like to share with some willing and able gardeners. I’ve been saving seeds from a rogue pepper plant I grew in 2009. The seeds for that plant came … Continue reading
Fall Garden Update
It’s been a great year for the fall vegetables here in 2011. We’ve had ample rains and moderate weather, and so far by early November we’ve had several frosts but no freezing temperatures. The greens have been growing lush with … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, fall, greens, Impact community garden, kale
15 Comments
Garlic Planting Time
It’s garlic planting time here again in Southern Indiana. I generally wait until late October or early November to plant ours, and yesterday was a great day to get it done, before the rain moved in today. I wait until … Continue reading
Last of the Summer Vegetables
This week brought a forecast for our first killing frost, right on schedule for our area. That had me scrambling to harvest and process all of the warm season vegetables before it was too late. As it turned out, we … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardening
Tagged basil, eggplant, lettuce, peppers, preserving, salads, tomatoes
13 Comments
Drying Peppers
This time of year the dehydrator stays busy at HA. For the last couple of weeks it was drying apples and making apple leather. This week it has been drying peppers. Dehydrating is a great way to preserve both sweet … Continue reading
