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Preparing For the Hungry Gap: Hack #1

July 15, 2022

Now is the time to prepare for next year’s hungry gap. Hack #1. The first hack is to plant Tuscan …

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Saving Seeds: Celery

August 5, 2021

Celery sets seeds in its second year. That is, you have to wait a year after planting to get seeds. …

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Vegetable Garden Hail Damage

August 1, 2021

A 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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Saving Seeds: Onions

July 31, 2021

I 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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Zucchini Update

July 28, 2021

Some photos about a month apart showing my planting of my zucchini starters, their growth, and some harvest…. [more]

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A Stout A Cigar And Rain

July 1, 2021

We 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 dark beer and a cigar. It was over two years ago on a road trip to Krakow Poland. I have been many places in nearly 30 countries. Most places are on the visit scheme of things, been there and done that. Been there so no need to go back. But Krakow is one of those places I would definitely go back for a visit. […]

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Drying Garlic

June 28, 2021

This 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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3 Years of Weather a Tomato’s Perspective

June 21, 2021

I 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 2019 “weird” since it seemed an unusual event. But it might simply have been the first of a new normal of extreme swings in weather. A cold spring slows down tomato growth, flowering and fruit […]

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