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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
The weather is definitely getting crisp outside, but most of the plants are loving it! The red lettuces are getting even darker in color and the radicchio is also showing more color. This week’s photoessay might be more appropriately titles “Find the insects in the picture!” You’ll see what I…
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Continue reading →: Life Under the Row Covers
I put the heavier row covers on the garden Wednesday afternoon. The Spinach/Lettuce bed got the heavier fabric cover and the Root Vegetables/Some Greens bed got the plastic cover. Since it was still warm and sunny on Wednesday, I left the ends open on the plastic tunnel. You can see…
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Continue reading →: Carrots!
I was out watering the garden this afternoon, preparing to put on the row cover again. Everything is extremely dry, and with the row covers on, any rain we get tomorrow will not make a lot of difference in the extremely dry soil. When I checked on the carrots, I…
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Continue reading →: Using Up the Last Tomatoes of the Season
We had a bunch of green tomatoes after we pulled the plants from the Demo Garden, as well as a few red tomatoes. (The red tomatoes were red, but they weren’t the luscious summer red – more like a grocery store tomato might be.) This seemed like a great opportunity…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
It’s about 32 degrees out in the garden right now. Finally! I did end up covering one of our two raised beds, but I only used the very lightest row cover fabric. A quick peak at the thermometer inside the cover shows that it is about the same temperature under…
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