Putting Up For Winter
1940 – Part of the canned goods and home grown vegetables in the new storage house of Mr. And Mrs….
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One More Tomato – Matt’s Cherry
Earlier this week when I was talking about the tomatoes we love to grow I left one out—Matt’s Wild Cherry….
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Randy Hooper Tomato
Randy Hooper tomato After so many years of growing tomatoes we have our favorites that we grow every year with…
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Beautiful Butter Beans
butter bean noun A small lima bean.1949 Kurath Word Geog East US 73 Butter beans is a common expression for lima beans in all of the Southern area. Many…
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Good Mother Stallard Bean
We grew Good Mother Stallard green beans this year for the first time. A subscriber sent them to us and…
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Planting by the Signs for August 2024 & We Have CORN!
We have corn! You likely heard me hollering about how thrilled I am all the way at your house 🙂…
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Smut
Today’s guest post was written by Ed Ammons. I have smut in my corn. Want to see? Ain’t it pretty?…
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Mountain Cornfields
Photo courtesy of Western Carolina University Southern Appalachian Digital CollectionsTo see an enlarged version visit this page and click on photo. Mountain…
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Pap and Wild Grapes
fox grape noun A woody vine (Vitis labrusca) that bears small, edible grapes green in color but later turning brown. Same as possum…
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Planting by the Signs for July 2024
When I shared the best planting days for June we had been having ample rain. A month later that is…
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The Joy of Sitting in the Garden
I’ve enjoyed sitting in the garden so much this year. With Miss Cindy being sick last summer I didn’t have…
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Planting by the Signs for June 2024
The ample rain we’ve been having has really made the garden grow by leaps and bounds. We’ve had some pretty…
