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Continue reading →: Tuesday Garlic HarvestI guess Tuesdays are turning into the Garlic Harvest report as our regularly scheduled feature. (I suspect we will only have a couple more weeks of it though!) This week we harvested the 3rd variety from the Pizza Garden bed, which was the Inchelium Red. Inchelium Red is an Artichoke…
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Continue reading →: Planting Sweet Potatoes
We received our Sweet Potato slips last Thursday, and I stuck them in right away. We were planning to plant 2 varieties in the raised bed: ‘O’Henry’ and ‘Beauregard.’ We also received some NC Japanese that I wasn’t planning on. I stuck a couple of those slips in the area…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
Have you survived the first bout of heat this week? It is definitely a change for this year! Here’s the view of the whole garden for the week. I took the picture Thursday afternoon, hence the full sun! Plants are getting bigger, especially the tomatoes, which seem to have doubled…
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Continue reading →: Video Wednesday
Since we’ve been busy harvesting garlic, I thought it would be a good time to dust off this video about harvesting and storing onions. Our onions here are not as big as we might wish, but the tops look like they are coming into the final stretch of growth.
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Continue reading →: More Garlic to HarvestI think summer is here. Ugh. At least we are going to have tomatoes this year! We harvested two more varieties of garlic this morning, ‘Sonoran’ and ‘Ajo Rojo.’ This just goes to show that you can’t judge a garlic based solely on how the plant looks above the ground.…