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Continue reading →: Grocery Garden Harvest Report – July & August
How time flies when it’s summer and there’s lots of produce! It has been two whole months since I updated you on the harvests, yields, and value of the Grocery Garden bed. July: Venice Beans: 3.175 lbs @ $4.00 per lb = $12.70 Purple Dragon Carrots:7.85 bunches @ $3.00 per…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – July 28, 2017
We have hit the main harvest season for summer vegetables, even though the spider mites are a severe trial to most of our plants. This seems to be a horrendous year for spider mites, and in a lot of respects, the best we can do is to just wait for…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – July 14, 2017
Like many local gardens, our Demonstration Garden is seeing the onset of a wide range of insects, diseases, and weather-related challenges. On the surface though, it is beginning to look like a rather overgrown jungle of green. With the tomatoes and vine crops throughout the garden, everything is starting to…
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Continue reading →: Grocery Garden Harvest Report
It’s been almost a month since the last harvest report, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been harvesting. We had a stunningly beautiful harvest this past week, with gold beets, purple carrots, green beans, and more! I’m not going to break this down by week, just lump everything all together.…