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Hot Weekend with Hot Peppers

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Dirt to Dinner

I can grow asparagus from seed. I can grow potatoes from true seed for God’s sake! But I cannot seem to manage to keep pepper seedlings alive long enough to make it into the garden. Out of the dozens of pepper seeds I have started this year, only one ‘Fish’, one ‘Matchbox’ and one ‘Joe’s Long’ have survived.

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Hot Pepper Have-to-Haves

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Dirt to Dinner

Which peppers will get space in your garden this year? Here are five I couldn’t resits making room for.

Filed under: Learning, Planting | Tagged: favorite pepper varieties, Fish peppers, growing food, growing hot peppers, urban gardening | 6 Comments »

New Year in Potatoes

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Dirt to Dinner

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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Five New Onions for the Holidays

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dirt to Dinner

What’s the first thing you’ll plant for the 2012 garden? I think my next project will be beets, then it’ll finally be time to get some of the tomato and pepper seeds going.

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Winter Solstice, 2011

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Dirt to Dinner

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!)

Filed under: Growing, Harvesting, Learning, Planting | Tagged: mini tubers, potato seedlings, potato varieties, russet burbank | Leave a Comment »

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