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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
Hopefully we are sort of back to some semblance of a schedule with the Friday PhotoEssay. Ah well…if I don’t get it posted, you can always check out all the pics from the week on Flickr. We started the week with just a few strawberries here and there…some pretty, some…
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Continue reading →: First Try with the Hon Tsai Tai
We gave our first shot to cooking and eating the Hon Tsai Tai tonight. Honestly…not so impressed. However, I think I know how to rectify the problem for next time. I cut the bottom 3-4 inches off the stems, because I’d read on a couple other sites that the stems…
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Continue reading →: Weekly Harvest Report
Even though we only have a few rows of lettuce, spinach, and mustard greens, we ended up with a lot of salad this week! From the Asian Garden: 3 small heads of Chinese Cabbage, with the extra bonus of a few slugs and roly polys. 3+ bags of mustard greens…
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Continue reading →: Keeping Insects Out – Literally
This morning in the Demonstration Garden, we implemented 2 1/2 methods of insect control that are maybe something different from what you’ve seen before. The first thing we are trying out is bagging our apples. We have all of 3 apples on our tree, so it wasn’t too labor intensive!…
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Continue reading →: Strawberries!
I went out to the garden this morning and scrounged around in the wet, soggy strawberry patch until I found a handful of mostly okay strawberries. Between the roly polys enjoying the wet weather and munching on some of the berries and a number of berries that are bright red…