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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – May 19, 2017
We survived a rainy, stormy week and the garden looks generally green and healthy. We also planted most of our remaining warm season plants this week, including replanting some things that hadn’t been successful so far… Part of that planting was putting up all of our cattle panel trellises before…
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Continue reading →: Grocery Garden Harvest Report – May 16
I have two weeks of leafy greens harvests to report today. The Grocery Garden has green and red butterhead lettuces that are at the baby leaf stage, a mesclun that is slightly larger than baby sized, and a lettuce mix that is at baby leaf stage. Not a beautiful picture,…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – May 12, 2017After a week of warmer temperatures and MORE rain, the garden has grown a lot! We also planted some of the warm season plants and plan to plant more this coming week. The peas in particular have grown significantly and most of them are starting to flower. Most years, we…
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Continue reading →: Grocery Garden Harvest Report
The point of the Grocery Garden is to grow things that are more expensive or difficult to find in the grocery store. As we progress through the season, we are going to track our harvests and assign values to them using grocery store or farmers market prices. This past week…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – May 5, 2017
It’s time to start our regular Friday reviews of the Demonstration Garden! We have more growing in the garden than some years at this time. Except for the tomato and vertical gardens, which are empty, most of the other areas have lettuces, other leafy greens, peas, or root veggies. We…