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05 Oct 2008Garden Picked Clean 1 4Cloudy 14°C / 58°F
By me!!
Warm weather is coming to an end and our first Freeze Warning has just been issued for tonight. I went out this morning and picked the last of the things that might be bothered by the cold. There are still tons of green tomatoes on the vines, but we are about tomatoed-out at this point....
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05 Oct 2008First Frost Warning Tonight 2 7The alert just came across my computer when I booted up this morning. Game face on! Heads out to the garden.Cloudy 9°C / 49°F
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28 Sep 2008Delicious Turnip Greens 1 Wen's Square Foot Garden gardenOvercast 19°C / 67°F
Yummo! A nice picking of turnip greens this morning. Probably 2 tight handfuls.
I’ll put them in the frig to wait for more to add to them in a couple days then I’ll stew them up and put on a big pone of cornbread. Oh they are so tender and delicious. Perhaps just a few for a salad to...
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28 Sep 2008Okra!!! Are you flipping kidding me?!?! 7 1 Wen's Square Foot Garden gardenOvercast 19°C / 67°F
Are you kidding me?!?! I planted okra in the spring, but between the monster squash and tomato jungle, the okra just couldn’t do its thing. So I pulled it up long ago and replanted it with greens for fall.
Well. Apparently there was one very determined okra plant hiding out under the tomat...
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28 Sep 2008First handful: Sugar Snap Peas 1 1 Super Sugar Snap Harvesting and Back Fence Garden gardenSunny 19°C / 67°F
It was a perfectly dreary weekend here, 3 major low systems collided. A nor’easter out on the Jersey coast, the non-named sub-tropical system that no one wanted to admit could have been named, and rain bands from the storm previously known as Kyle all converged over my house this weekend. ...
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25 Sep 2008It's Not Sunny, But Bright Today 4 4 Wen's Square Foot Garden gardenCloudy 18°C / 65°F
The sky is gloomy, but the fall garden is cheerful. Today’s harvest:
red bell pepper
royalty purple bush beans (first harvest)
radishes
broccoli
I can’t wait for dinner!!
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25 Sep 2008Photo Update: Broccoli Still Going! 2 Broccoli and Wen's Square Foot Garden gardenCloudy 18°C / 65°F
The broccoli was a spring planting and is still yeilding. The trick really is to keep cutting it. These florets will go into tonight’s dinner of steamed veggies.
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25 Sep 2008Photo Update: Cherriette Radishes 1 Radishes - Cherriette Hybrid and Wen's Square Foot Garden gardenCloudy 18°C / 64°F
Super happy with this variety from Park Seed. Marking them available for swap, I have plenty to share.
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25 Sep 2008First Handful: Royalty Purple Beans 3 Royalty Purple Bush Beans Harvesting and Wen's Square Foot Garden gardenCloudy 18°C / 64°F
What a joy these beans have been to watch grow. Gorgeous in their own right as a plant, with an edible to boot! I just came in from picking my first handful of beans. All 6 that I originally planted are producing quite well.
We’ll have a couple weeks of beans to add into meals. This handfu...
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25 Sep 2008Drying Tomatoes 3 8 Wen's Square Foot Garden gardenCloudy 18°C / 64°F
With salsa canned and plenty of sauce in the freezer I decided to try drying tomatoes in the dehydrator. My friend just did a huge batch of her italian tomatoes after filling every single jar she owned with sauce and STILL having tomatoes coming out her ears. She has had great success with it in...
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