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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – June 6th
Earlier in the week I was just getting ready to write a post complaining a little bit about the short lull in garden activity at this time of year (meaning no planting or harvesting to speak of, just lots of weeding and watering). And then it hailed. Which didn’t seem…
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Continue reading →: Watch for Diseases in Your Garden
As nice as the rain and hot-but-not-scorching weather is, it is creating something of a perfect storm for tomato diseases this summer. Our two most common tomato diseases are Septoria Leaf Spot and Early Blight. While they are two different diseases, we usually talk about them as one disease because…
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Continue reading →: Thinning Seedlings
I think one of the hardest gardening tasks is thinning out seedlings. It is too easy to just let it go, because you are so excited to see the plants growing, and then everything is an overgrown, tangled mess that you can’t thin out. That’s one of the reasons that…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – May 30th
We have a big change to show off in the garden this week! Yes, we have mulch! Doesn’t it look great? It always gives the garden an entirely different look and feel once we get everything mulched. We mulched everything except the areas where there are still seeds working on…
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Continue reading →: Endive, Escarole, and Mustard Recipes
Since this is the fourth week that we have been harvesting the endive/escarole mesclun, I thought it was high time that I shared a couple of recipes and a little more information about this vegetable. Endive and escarole are both in the chicory family (think radicchio, etc). You may have…