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Category Archives: vegetable garden
Beans Beans the Magical Fruit
Possibly the most exciting time of the garden year is when I pick my shelling beans. Planted in May when the soil gets nice and toasty, the bush beans grow like snap beans at first – and can be eaten as such if you are not waiting for the dry September jewels. Continue reading
Posted in beans, vegetable garden, vegetables
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Hand building an olla
Trying something new. I’m using low-fire clay bodies that mature at cone 04-1. RedArt Terra Cotta, RedArt with sand, and Terra Cotta (which has grog). I will fire them at our bisque temperature, cone 06 (~1000C), where I hope they will remain porous Continue reading
Posted in ceramics, DIY, olla irrigation, vegetable garden
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Spring pick-me-up
Gorgeous, sunny, warm days of outdoor work interspersed with dreary, cold, rainy days of planning. Here are some pics to keep us going on the latter.
Posted in flowers, fruit, spring, vegetable garden
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The Garden Gargantuan
OK, no stories cause there’s too much going on. Instead, photo overview of happenings ’round the homestead. Click on each photo to see it enlarged.
Cherries!!! Another few weeks and they’ll be ripe – but I’m snacking on them already.
Posted in bottle fence, chickens, cucumber, eggs, vegetable garden
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