Big Sweet Potatoes This Year
Bonita White Sweet Potatoes We finally got our sweet potatoes dug and are really pleased with the harvest since we…
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Thrashing Beans
thresh verb Variant forms thrash, thrush.1862 Lockmiller CW Letters (June 22) Hiram L miller is to thrush the Rye for…
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Mashed Potato Squash
Mashed Potato Squash The eye-catching 1 to 1 ½ pound Mashed Potatoes acorn squash is a unique and delicious growing…
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Heavy Dew in the Mountains
Notice the drips of dew along the wire above the spider web The mountains of southern Appalachia experience heavy dews….
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My Favorite Grape
I’ve always liked grapes. I loved to look for them in the cans of fruit cocktail Granny fed us when…
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More Maypops Than Ever
Wild apricot noun A tall vine (Passiflora incarnata) having large, flesh-colored flowers and smooth, yellow fruit. Same as maypop, passion…
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Fighting Blackberries & Fighting Grass
The overgrown area on the left of the photo is mixture of weeds, dead bean vines, thriving morning glory vines,…
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A Late Watermelon
The flowerbed outside the kitchen window needs a good cleaning out. There’s an aggravating weed in it that I know…
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Nasturtiums Get Second Wind
My nasturtiums are getting their second wind. The plants are flowing over the walkways in the backyard and climbing up…
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Digging This Year’s Taters
First bucket of potatoes in wagon Yesterday we dug the three long rows of potatoes we planted in the big…
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Fall Garden Is Mostly Up
Our small fall garden is coming right along so far. Matt didn’t believe me, but I said I was going…
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Last Beans of the Summer
We picked the last of the beans this week. While we were gone to the beach friends came and picked…
