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Continue reading →: Saving Seeds: CeleryCelery sets seeds in its second year. That is, you have to wait a year after planting to get seeds. But the benefit is one should get a lot of seeds and the seeds you do not save to plant can be used as a very tasty spice.
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Continue reading →: Vegetable Garden Hail DamageA unusually hot and dry summer till today. When we got lots of rain and some hail. We could use the rain. But this storm started as a real downpour dropping 1.5 cm (0.6 in) of rain in the first 15 minutes. And of course the hail. […]
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Continue reading →: Saving Seeds: OnionsI have been saving seeds for a few years now. Mainly because I can never seem to get fresh seed here locally that I want for late summer and fall sowing […]
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Continue reading →: Zucchini UpdateSome photos about a month apart showing my planting of my zucchini starters, their growth, and some harvest…. [more]
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Continue reading →: A Stout A Cigar And RainWe had a very cold May. Then most of June was a heat wave and very dry. But today, July 1 was cool and we had a gentle rain. Weirdly I can not remember when we last had a gentle rain. But I do remember when I last had a…
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Continue reading →: Drying GarlicThis year’s total garlic harvest came to over 200 garlic bulbs of good size, with about 30 little ones that will be used pretty much immediately since I ran out of garlic from last year already. Drying is pretty easy for me. […]
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Continue reading →: 3 Years of Weather a Tomato’s PerspectiveI wrote in 2019 that it was a weird year and a bad year for tomatoes: A cold spring, and very hot, dry June. Well, this year is becoming a repeat of 2019, with a cold spring and now a very hot June with no rain in sight. I considered…
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Continue reading →: Starting the Garlic HarvestI planted over 150 garlic last fall, at different times and in different places. And the earliest plantings are becoming ripe for harvest.






