Tag Archives: Harvest

Feline Friday: Halloween Edition

Friday, October 30, 2009 – 12:06 am

I ran across this lovely photo on Chiot’s Run’s flickr page. I think that Autumn harvests and cats simply belong together, besides Halloween is tomorrow and I cannot resist the prowling black cat…

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Frost Warnings

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 – 10:01 am

We are getting our first frost warnings this week so I have had a chance to start using my GardenQuilt row cover which should protect down to 24F and has 60% light transmission (so I pull it off during the day once it warms up.) I bought a 10′x20′ piece of GardenQuilt and used most [...]

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Rainbows and Watermelon

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 – 11:30 am

We always know when summer is coming to an end in our area. The warm weather goes to battle with the increasing cold fronts and one day can be 90°F and the next barely pass 60°F. Last night dropped to 42°F and some of the outlaying areas even had freezing fog. On Friday I ordered [...]

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July Bounty

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 – 12:40 pm

This weekend I harvested the rest of my purple haze carrots (which were fantastic and gone very quickly) and yesterday I picked my first handful of empress beans (an stringless heirloom snap bean.)
I actually could have started picking my beans last week but I am saving the seeds from that plant in the hopes [...]

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Carrots

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 – 11:25 am

This morning I realized that I had not yet thinned my carrots when Damian yoinked out a a few and I noticed the drastic size differences. Not surprisingly when two carrots grow crammed next to each other one looses the battle of the biggest and the other never really reaches it’s full potential either. I [...]

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