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Back in the Garden
I was gone a week. A full week. Before I left I watered everything as much as I could, typed out instructions labeled: watering, weeding, harvesting, and prayed for rain. When I left there were tiny beets in the ground … Continue reading
Posted in garden, the Farm
Tagged beets, broccoli, food gardening, organic gardening, radish
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Carrot Top Pesto
My friends are starting to get their first shares from their CSAs and, I have to say, it’s humbling. These CSA farmers are not messing around. My friends, living in Illinois and Michigan, are getting boxes full of wildly diverse … Continue reading
Posted in garden, Uncategorized
Tagged carrot greens, carrot tops, CSA, garden produce, growing food, organic gardening, pesto, unusual pesto
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Cold Frame Goodness
I know last year, the first year I had a cold frame, my husband felt a bit cheated when I asked that he come help me lift it off the raised bed in late May. “That’s it?” “It’s done its job. … Continue reading
Posted in garden, the Farm, Uncategorized
Tagged cold frame, early lettuce, gardening, growing food, lettuce season, organic gardening, season extender
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The Birds and the Peas
Last Saturday I had a problem with this robin. This really annoying robin. Beginning at 5:30 a.m. and going until about 6:30 p.m., this robin did nothing but fly up to my bedroom window, flutter and bang his wings against … Continue reading
Posted in garden, the Farm
Tagged birds, organic gardening, planting peas, robin, robin behavior, warbler migration, yellow warbler
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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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Urban Gardening
Anyone who gets organic garden magazines has been subjected to the “garden porn” of California raised beds overflowing with herbs and vegetables and other gardens at their peak. The false sense they convey is that if everyone did this, we … Continue reading
Posted in garden, the Farm
Tagged growing food, locavore, organic gardening, sustainable gardening, urban gardening, urban gardening myths, 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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