Which peppers will get space in your garden this year? Here are five I couldn’t resits making room for.
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This is my third year growing potatoes through the winter. I chose a sheltered location this winter because last year the harvest was very small and there was considerable frost damage. But in 2010 we had a wonderful harvest in March from winter-grown potatoes.
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While I was working in the garden this afternoon, I unearthed some gorgeous, purple-skinned, ‘Caribe’ potatoes–the second or third generation of them we’ve grown. Even this late in the year, grown in a small bag, I was still able to pull out three large potatoes, a couple smaller ones, and four mini-tubers I’m hoping to use as seed for this spring. (Since we’ve already mashed and eaten the larger potatoes!)
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There was certainly no danger of me winning the 99 Pound Potato Challenge with this year’s ‘Rose Gold’ crop even though it is a new Personal Best for us here in the Dirt to Dinner garden. In 2010, we harvested 20 lbs of potatoes from a fifteen square foot raised bed and this year we [...]
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“The Quarter-Acre Farm” could have been written about my yard–if Spring Warren hadn’t already done so in such a charming way, it might well have been written about my yard. Now, thankfully, I can cross book writing off my To-Do list and go back to my latest Potato Project as I direct you to get your own copy of “The Quarter-Acre Farm”, complete with hypnotic illustrations and delicious recipes designed to be prepared by mere mortals.
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