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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: lettuce
May Garden Update
Early May finds our garden with some new faces showing up to complement the many different greens that have been feeding us all winter and spring. We have kohlrabi starting to size up, with both purple and white varieties planted. … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged Asian greens, asparagus, blackberries, blueberries, chard, cherries, containers, fruit, kohlrabi, lettuce, potatoes, radicchio, raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes
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‘G’ is for Green
Green was the color of this week’s harvests. We had 3.5 pounds of green spinach. I sauteed some of it and froze some for later use. I love fresh spinach. The overwintered ones are bolting now, so they got pulled … Continue reading
Hardy Harvest
I just can’t say enough about my new favorite lettuce. Spotted Trout, aka Forellenschluss, aka Freckles, is a beautiful and tasty romaine that has apple green leaves mottled with reddish specks. This lettuce was planted last October and spent the … Continue reading
April Tour
It’s hard to believe it is already mid April. I guess time flies when you’re having fun! Things are really growing here this spring, with ample rains and warmer than usual temps. I like to take photos to document things … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged Asian greens, cold frame, flowers, kohlrabi, lettuce, radicchio, spinach
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Google It
One of the nice things about using WordPress as a blogging platform is that there are thousands of plugins written for it. Plugins are programs that give added functionality to WordPress, extending it to do almost anything you can imagine. … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Reviews
Tagged arugula, containers, eggplant, lettuce, pita, recipes, tatsoi
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More Than Enough
The garden is not only giving us plenty to eat right now, it’s actually giving us more than we can eat. The recent warm weather may have given way to more seasonal (make that COLD) temperatures, but the plants seem … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardening
Tagged Asian greens, cheese, containers, Food, homemade, lettuce, spinach
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Mini Salad Boxes
These growing boxes are a smaller sized version of the bigger salad boxes I made a couple of weeks ago. I made them from 16 inch long pieces of 1×4 and 2×4 lumber. The inside dimensions are 13 inches wide, … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged containers, greenhouse, greens, homemade, lettuce, salad, salad box
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