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Garden update, late July
My garden is out of control. Huge behind-schedule work project + a handful of weekend getaways, and Adam has been busy with another project (you’ll find out about that soon enough). This is for...
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Garlic and squirrel war
Here’s the garlic, all cleaned up and tied into a nice, neat (huge) bunch: Thank goodness the garlic turned out, because everything else has been rather uninspiring. Here’s yesterday’s harvest: Those...
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A few final garden chores for the year
We’ve had such a long, warm, glorious fall here in Minnesota that time got away from me. Suddenly I realized that it was nearly the end of October. Time to get to work! Here was one small...
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Drying foods for long-term storage
Here’s an area I’m just starting to, uh, get my feet wet in. A while back, I realized how fantastic certain herbs tasted when homegrown and dried. Last year, we had a very respectable herb store for...
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Garden Plan 2012
Time for my favorite post of the year: my garden plan is complete! Check it out: DETAILS (let’s start with the stock tanks, shall we?): Stock tanks Inspired by Eliot Coleman, I’m going to try and get...
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Garden update
Sugar snap peas! Coming right along. Hopefully we’ll be eating them in May. Three rows of garlic, and hops climbing up the trellis. I am a little frightened at how huge this hops plant is already,...
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Blanching leeks
When you buy a leek at the grocery store it usually has a beautiful, long white stem. That’s achieved through a process called “blanching” and there are several different methods—most involve hilling...
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Curing and storing hard-neck garlic
I harvested my garlic one week ago: It was less than half my 2011 harvest. I simply planted less of it last fall, having had no plan and no time to come up with one. Last September-October was a crazy...
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Garden Plan 2013
Here we are, my favorite post of the year! My detailed garden plan for 2013, click to enlarge: Oh, how my plans have evolved over the years (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012). I’ve been very focused, the past...
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Solstice garden update
The first days of summer were marked by terrible weather–three nights in a row of severe thunderstorms that left much of the city (including us, for about 18 hours) without power. Trees are down...
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Garden Plan 2015
It doesn’t seem like that long since we planned and mostly executed Crazy Garden 2014. I’m afraid I don’t have a name for our 2015 garden; the closest thing I have to a concept is to call it “keeping...
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Country in the city
We keep talking about moving to the country. I don’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon; I’m starting to wonder if it ever needs to happen. How would our lives be different if we lived in the...
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