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In Bloom: Cucumber
I wish I could tell you the exact cultivar, but I planted three or four different kinds and didn’t remember to label them!
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No space in the garden?
When space gets tight in the garden, the good news is that your crop has a time limit. Whether it’s a 68 day carrot or a 150 day garlic, the time will come to harvest. However, I have a packed garden with nothing quite ready to be scrapped, and five more sweet potato plants ready to be put in the…
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Cucumber Sandwich!
I had never tried a cucumber sandwich until last year. With all the wedding and baby showers I’ve attended in the past 8 years, and being a southern girl, it’s amazing I was able to dodge them for so long. Essentially, I have an irrational fear of what I call “old lady foods”. Allow me to expound. Fruit salad, tuna…
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Saturday Assassins
** CORRECTION 6/7/2013: These are leaf footed bug nymphs, which have the two black spots and hang out in clusters. https://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/aimg65.html ** I’ve posted these assassin bugs in the past, and they have appeared in the garden this year. I found a cluster of their offspring on a cluster of coriander seeds that I was waiting to dry so I…
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Detailed Garden Schematic
A friend requested I share this, so here it is! If you open the picture in a new browser window, you should be able to zoom in on it. The plants shown are what was growing as of the beginning of June. There are far less carrots now after a week of picking a daily one for the baby. The…
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Taking care of the bumbles
I’ve always been skittish around flying insects with stingers. I blame my parents who potty trained me in the buff on the side porch, during which I was stung on the bumkin by a bee. When approached by a yellow jacket, I will actually take off in flight until I lose him. However, in the garden, there is one stinger…
