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Dave
Southern Indiana
USDA Zone 6bAn organic (mostly) gardener shares his thoughts about gardening, nature, food and striving to be self-sufficient.
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Tag Archives: fruit
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
Harvest Monday: Overdrive
The garden seemed to go into overdrive this week. The kitchen island has been loaded up every day with goodies from the garden, and the freezer is filling up fast. The blueberries and blackberries are hitting their peak, even as … Continue reading
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Tagged black, blueberries, cucumber, fruit, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes
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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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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
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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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Cherry, Cherry
It’s cherry time here at Happy acres! This tree was here when we arrived, so we don’t know the variety. We have two more cherry trees we did plant, but they are still small and only have a few cherries … Continue reading
Harvest Monday – Transition
It’s now mid-May, and the harvests are slowly transitioning from the leafy greens of late winter and early spring to the more substantial fruits and vegetables of late spring and summer. Which means our diet is in transition as well. … Continue reading
