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Continue reading →: Harvesting Okra
Okra is one of those vegetables that I’m much less familiar with, and it also fits my category of “if you have to bread it and fry it to make it edible, it either isn’t edible or isn’t a vegetable.” That said, one of the biggest mistakes that people make…
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Continue reading →: Family of 4 Update
It’s been awhile since I’ve updated you on the Family of 4 Garden – in part because I’ve been gone so much. I still need to post some pictures from my trip too – maybe for the Friday PhotoEssay. To be completely honest, neither you nor I have missed much.…
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Continue reading →: Where’s Our Fall Garden?
You may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything about planting for fall or shown pictures of what we are doing for a fall garden this year. (Okay, maybe you haven’t noticed.) Or maybe you just assumed that the heat was taking its toll on us as much as you,…
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Continue reading →: Another Look at the Grafted and Non-Grafted Heirloom Tomatoes
On getting back to work this week, some of the differences between the grafted and non-grafted heirlooms have become increasingly apparent. This is the view of the non-grafted part of the bed. The two plants on the end aren’t bad, but the next 4 grafted plants in line have withered…
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Continue reading →: Heat Set Tomatoes
I think I’ve mentioned a couple times that we were watching our heat-set tomatoes for signs of fruit set during the heat. A few weeks later, we are not at a point where we can really get a good idea of what is going on with the different varieties. The…