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Baby Food All Over the Yard

April 2nd, 2013 No Comments

Baby Food, as Opposed to ‘Baby’ Food This evening, I walked around my yard and took a good look under leaves, in trees and on bushes. My yard is full of baby food… starting with what I planted in late February and early March. In the Garden Green Beans Okra Poblanos Tomatoes Radishes In the […]

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Fresh from the Garden Lettuce

March 21st, 2013 1 Comment

Lots of Lettuce Lettuce is a cool weather plant. It will germinate even when the temperature is  in the 40s, but it won’t sprout well when the temps hit the mid-70s. The lettuce in this box was planted about six weeks ago and is the first thing in the garden to be harvested this season. […]

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Pruning Tomatoes

March 10th, 2013 3 Comments

Yes, there really is such a thing. The leaves of my tomatoes were dragging in the mud. They were so scraggly that they were covering the okra plants in the row next to them.  I needed to clean them up. Tomato Plants in Need of Pruning Suckers… not the Lollypop Kind While doing so, I […]

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