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Continue reading →: Preserving Basil
Since there is ostensibly colder weather (under 40 degrees) coming soon, it is time to think about making use of any remaining warm season plants in the garden. Now temperatures between 32 and 40 will not kill most tomatoes, peppers, basil, etc, but they will be damaged. Basil especially will…
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Continue reading →: Digging Sweet Potatoes
We planted some sweet potatoes in one of the ornamental gardens on our ground – both ornamentals and regular edible types of sweet potatoes. Specifically, they were in our EarthKind Soils demo area, where they were planted in a clay soil that had been amended with expanded shale and compost.…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
Apparently I failed at publishing this last Friday. I swear I hit the right button, but the computer didn’t think so. It’s amazing how much faster things grow when you are away for almost a week! It has been 7 1/2 weeks since we planted a lot of the veggies…
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Continue reading →: Harvesting & Storing Lemongrass
The weather really is getting cooler! Eventually, anyway. With that in mind, we harvested our 4 lemongrass plants from the Demo Garden earlier this week. Lemongrass is grown as an annual in Kansas because it won’t tolerate temperatures below 40 degrees very well. Theoretically, you could divide the big clump…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
Wow! Friday came around fast this week. Next week is our Annual Extension Conference, so posting may be light during the early part of the week. This week we’re enjoying all the fall greens and other things that are loving the fall weather. In our Asian garden, we have several…
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