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This morning I decided it was finally time to tidy up the bean teepee area. Which included of course, harvesting the remaining Anna Swartz Hubbard squash. I must admit, I am pretty pleased with how I fared poundage wise this year with these squash. 184 pounds 1 ounce. Hot diggety! Now comes the hard part. Storing it all. Read More >>
This weekend past weekend one of my garden chores was to pull up the dying zucchini plants. It took all of 5 minutes, and then zucchini season was over. Just like that. I was actually hoping to get one more round of giant zucchinis so I could doorbell ditch them onto my neighbors porches, but Read More >>
Yesterday I played hooky from the blog and worked all day in the backyard. I have a ton of backyard projects I want to tackle this fall, and since yesterday was the first day of fall, I decided it was the perfect time to get a move on. The first project I tackled was cleaning out Read More >>
If you are looking for some gourmet garlic bulbs to plant this fall, my boyfriend Ryan over at Botanical Interests says they have them in stock and ready to ship. Botanical Interests Seed Company currently offers 6 different varieties of garlic as well as sampler packs. Ideally garlic should be planted 6 – 8 weeks before a Read More >>
While I was snapping pictures in the garden last night, I noticed quite a few chive heads that were dried up and ready to be harvested. So this afternoon I headed out to the garden with a basket and collected the spent flower heads. If you have never collected chive seeds before, the process is Read More >>
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