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Continue reading →: Knowing When to Pick a Winter (Hard) Squash
When you jump from growing summer squash and zucchini into growing the “winter” squashes (sometimes called hard squash), you have to figure out when they are ripe and ready to pick. Of course, with the zucchini, you pretty much pick them whenever they get big enough that you can see…
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Continue reading →: Knowing When a Melon is Ripe
If you are growing melons in your garden this year (especially if you are trying them for the first time), it can be a challenge to gauge when to pick them. Even us “experts” struggle sometimes. First, here’s a quick video that covers the basics on cantaloupe and watermelon: But…
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Continue reading →: Family of 4 Harvest Report
In case you didn’t guess this already, we have a whole bunch of cucumbers and zucchini from the Family of 4 Garden this week. We also had some zucchini that were there yesterday that were mysteriously missing this morning when we harvested. I’ll make an estimate as to what…
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Continue reading →: Tomato Day this Saturday, July 28th!
Tomato Day – July 28th from 7 am—12 pm Do you love everything tomato? Have you struggled to grow great tomatoes? The 23rd Annual Tomato Day is for you! The event will be held at the Sedgwick County Extension Education Center at 21st and Ridge in Wichita on Saturday, July…
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Continue reading →: Family of 4 Garden Harvest
This week was a little slower in the Family of 4 Garden (maybe we did a better job of cleaning the cucumbers off last week…or maybe we missed a few more this week!). 6 lbs of Cucumbers @ $1.00/lb = $6.00 4 lbs of Zucchini @ $1.50/lb = $6.00 Weekly…
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