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Tag Archives: broccoli
Weighing In
The year isn’t nearly over yet, but our experiment this year of weighing all our harvests has proven to be a real eye opener. This week we hit the 800 pound mark, which is a lot of food anyway you … Continue reading
Summer and Fall Gardens
I haven’t posted much about gardening of late, but I’ve been busy dealing with the harvests. Even though this has been an unusually hot and dry year (5 degrees warmer than average, and 8 inches less rain than “normal”) our … Continue reading
Hot Harvest Monday
There’s only one way to describe the weather here lately, and that’s HOT-T-T! High temps are supposed to be in the mid 90s all week, hitting 96F today. That has meant gardening chores have to be done as early as … Continue reading
Harvest Monday: Garlic, Squash, and a Marsupial
When I went to check on the garlic beds yesterday I was shocked to find that some of it was ready to be dug. It’s exactly two weeks before I started digging last year, but then I remembered that I … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged blueberries, broccoli, cabbage, Cats, cucumber, fruit, garlic, raspberry, strawberries
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June Garden Update
I started to add ‘Warts and All’ to the title, since it seems like many of the photos I took indicate weeding or other work is needed. Regardless, here’s what some of the gardens look like as we near mid-June. … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged azalea, beans, broccoli, butterflies, flowers, Gardening, shade, squash, sweet potatoes, tomatoes
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Harvest Monday: June Bounty
I do love this time of year in the garden, when the fruit is ripening and both spring and summer veggies are in the harvest bucket. Last week we enjoyed the last of the spring strawberries along with the first … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged blueberries, broccoli, cucumber, fruit, lettuce, raspberry, strawberry
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Harvest Monday: Green & Red
The harvests last week seemed to mostly involve the colors green and red. In the green camp we had: Arugula Garlic Scapes Lettuce The broccoli was bluish-green In the red zone we had: Cherries Strawberries The radicchio harvest seemed to … Continue reading
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Tagged broccoli, cherries, fruit, garlic, greens, lettuce, radicchio, strawberry
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