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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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Beaning In the New Year

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Dirt to Dinner

It’s done! In honor of the New Year I have finally shelled, frozen, sorted and stored all the beans from the 2011 growing season. Well, all the ones we didn’t eat, that is. We’ve already made chili with 2 cups of the ‘Scarlet Emperor’ beans and had baked beans out of another cup of the ‘Jacob’s Cattle’ beans.

Filed under: Cooking, Harvesting | Tagged: Dirt to Dinner, dried beans, growing beans, growing food, growing vegetables, urban farming | 1 Comment »

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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Just 80 Pounds of Potatoes to Go

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dirt to Dinner

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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