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My thoughts on a variety of garden topics. Favorites include: vegetables, native plants, heavy clay soil, composting, and gardening with ornery dogs.
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Okra is a superfood!
Image courtesy: Acadian Family Farm It's not often that we get to celebrate comfort food as being good for us, but prepared the right...
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Sep 3, 20203 min read
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Victory Garden herbs
Herbs to include in your Victory Garden The beds are made and veggies are planted. Here's what herbs to include. If you're following...
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Apr 29, 20205 min read
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Plant a Victory Garden
Time to plant your Victory Garden! Here's my advice on what plants and whether to buy plants or seeds at the garden center. Wow! Victory...
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Apr 20, 20204 min read
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Start a Victory Garden
Victory Gardens united our nation once before, let's do it again! In mid-March, a friend asked for my help moderating a gardening group...
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Apr 15, 20204 min read
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My favorite tomatoes: Vorlon
Vorlon were highly recommended by tomato growing gurus. Now I'm on the Vorlon tomato loving bandwagon. You should be proud of me. I...
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Mar 30, 20203 min read
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My favorite micro-dwarf tomato: Aztek
This little micro-dwarf tomato has the brightness of other yellow tomatoes, cute shape, and tiny growth habit. Above: Aztek (right) next...
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Mar 2, 20202 min read
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My favorite tomatoes: Bendigo Moon (dwarf)
A cross of one of my other favorite tomatoes, Bendigo Moon wowed with impressive production. The picture above is Bendigo Moon (larger)...
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Feb 24, 20203 min read
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My favorite tomatoes: Snow White cherry
This tomato came as a complete surprise, but became a staple in my garden after its first year. I stumbled upon my Snow White tomatoes...
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Feb 17, 20202 min read
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Live plants vs starting from seeds
Whether a gardener chooses to start with seeds or live plants is as unique as their gardens. It comes down to the answer to some key...
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Feb 12, 20203 min read
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My favorite tomatoes: Sun Gold cherry
If tomatoes can have a personality, these definitely do with a cheery and vibrant persona that reflects their taste. I first discovered...
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Feb 10, 20203 min read
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Creating my small space grow cart
Small space gardening means a smaller grow cart, but I had to build it myself
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Feb 5, 20204 min read
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My 2020 Grow List
It’s here! My 2020 grow list.
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Jan 30, 20202 min read
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How my wallet survives springtime
Raise your hand if you want to grow all the things! I'm guilty. I read gardening blogs, online threads, and get sucked into Facebook...
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Jan 14, 20202 min read
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Cherokee Purple - better for fall
I've grown Cherokee Purple four times now and because of a common tomato fungus, I think gardeners will be happier with its performance...
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Jan 5, 20202 min read
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Dwarf tomato verdit
As I shared this summer in my Dwarf tomato grow list post, I started with a packet of "free with purchase" seeds and ended up tumbling...
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Dec 10, 20194 min read
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Get your frost blankets ready
My weather is set to turn on a dime which means I need to be ready for anything. Last week, temperatures were still in the 90s but in...
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Sep 25, 20193 min read
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My tomatoes are going gangbusters thanks to planting in July.
I've heard for years that it was a good idea to pull and replace stressed tomato plants once the heat caused them to stop setting fruit....
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Sep 20, 20193 min read
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Shishito and Bell Pepper Slaw
I have a tendency to experiment in the kitchen using whatever I have available and failing to write down what I've done. It's such a...
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Sep 10, 20192 min read
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Frost tolerant? It’s 100 degrees!
Greetings from the edge of Mother Nature’s sanity! Here it‘s time to start the seeds of frost tolerant plants while we cook under the...
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Aug 27, 20195 min read
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BER? More like GRRR!
I'm pretty sure that Blossom-end Rot (BER) shows up in every garden at least once a season, no matter how good the gardener. This year...
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Jul 11, 20195 min read
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