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Continue reading →: Picking Peas
We picked the peas this morning, and I was having so much fun picking that I forgot to take any pictures! We ended up with about half a gallon bag of the shelling peas (unshelled) and half a gallon bag of the snow peas. Peas are fun to grow, and…
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Continue reading →: Something to Get Involved In!
I have been busy working on another project for the past month, and I thought that some of you might be interested in it as well. Here is what I blatantly plagiarized from my coworker’s press release about our new program: Sedgwick County Extension, the City of Wichita, and Kansas…
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Continue reading →: Spring turns to Summer in the Garden
If the consistently warm/hot and dry weather over the past several days hasn’t been a sign of summer, the plants in the garden are letting us know that they thing spring is past and summer is here. The radishes are the most striking example. The plants have pretty much given…
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Continue reading →: Insect Season is Upon Us!
Upon wandering through the garden this morning (if by “wandering” you mean watering), I discovered that the warm/hot temperatures of the last several days have caused numerous batches of insects to hatch out. There are quite a number of tiny grasshoppers roaming around. On a positive note, there are a…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
The Family of 4 Garden is looking green, lush, and absolutely scrumptious! The beets have perked back up after being thinned out, and lots of them have dime-sized beets developing! The snake is hanging out (literally!) in the tomato twine this week. The tomatoes have more than doubled their size…