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Eating Year Round from the Garden
I am always conscious of my real gardening goal– to eat from the garden year round. That is no small thing when one lives in Minnesota. I was talking to a woman I work with who lives in Florida and … Continue reading
Posted in food, garden
Tagged asparagus, lettuce, organic vegetable gardening, potatoes, winter produce
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Blemished
I am still in the state where everything is about cancer. It’s like people say that you don’t remember hearing anything about x, y, z (usually a disease) until you or a loved one gets it. Then suddenly every news story … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, garden
Tagged cancer surgery, canning tomatoes, ovarian cancer, potatoes, tomatoes
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spring forward (and drink kombucha!)
Tonight the clocks, if modern enough, will spring forward all on their own. The sun is already setting near 7 p.m., so starting tomorrow it will set at 8. We spring forward into more sunlight and, although it will snow more before … Continue reading
Posted in garden, recipe
Tagged early greens, garden vegetables, kombucha, kombucha mother, potatoes
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August: Preparing for Round Two
Thursday was a cleaning day in the garden. I pulled out the pea vines and the last of the beets (they really weren’t going to get any bigger) and turned over the beet and garlic beds to prepare them for fall planting. … Continue reading
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Tagged food gardening, growing potatoes, organic potatoes, potatoes
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Potatoes in the Bag
Mr. Hooper is getting out of yak farming. He’s giving up the Christmas trees, too, and retiring. He’s putting some of his land into prairie, which is good news for Steve the prairie landscaper. And we also took this opportunity to … Continue reading
Posted in garden, the Farm
Tagged growing potatoes, organic gardening, planting potatoes, potato grow bags, potatoes, vegetable gardening
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April Showers
Early yesterday morning I dozed as it rained outside. It was a lovely April shower that took out the last remnants of snow. It was a nice enough week that I got out on my bike six days out of seven, … Continue reading
Posted in garden, the Farm, Uncategorized
Tagged beets, gardening, heirloom potatoes, Minnesota vegetable gardening, planting, potatoes, seed potatoes, vegetable gardening
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Canning Days
I’m only working two days this week, in part because the next few weeks will be very busy, but also because it is canning season. I can’t imagine being a teacher now– right when all the work has to be … Continue reading
Posted in garden, recipe, the Farm
Tagged canning, canning produce, fingerling, garden, La Ratte potatoes, potatoes, saving produce, vegetable canning, vegetable gardening
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Potatoes and Pests
When I started gardening seriously a few years ago, a friend gave me a stack of books on organic gardening. I was especially interested in the one on preventing and treating for insects. I waited for bugs to appear and … Continue reading
Posted in garden, St. Joseph, the Farm
Tagged Colorado potato beetles, gardening, growing potatoes, organic gardening, pests eating potatoes, pocket gopher, potatoes
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