Growing Bakies
bakie (also bake) noun A baking squash.1976 Garber Mountain-ese 5 We raised ten bushels uv bakies in our garden this…
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Enjoying Watermelon
We love watermelon. Some of my favorite memories are of my Dad bringing out a watermelon on a summer evening…
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Planting by the Signs August 2022
Planting is about done for this year. I do hope to sow turnips, kale, and mustard greens this week. I’m…
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Blue Beans and Mamaw
Our beans are really coming in and we’ve been canning every weekend. The other day The Deer Hunter was getting…
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July Garden Update
Our garden is coming in like crazy. We have green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, malabar spinach, peppers, and okra that needs…
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Carrots…Finally!
I can’t tell you how many times I tried to grow carrots back when I first started gardening. They never…
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What is a Tommy-toe?
On a recent post Peggy asked what a tommy-toe was. Here’s the definition: tommytoe noun A small salad tomato, cherry…
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Planting by the Signs July 2022
Amazing what a month of growing can do for a garden. When I shared the best days for planting in…
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Celebrating the Firsts of Summer’s Bounty
The first ripe tomato of the year – a Sun Gold Our garden is coming right along, even though we…
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Trying to Lay the Garden By
Lay by verb phrase To leave a crop to mature after hoeing it for a final time late in the…
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Planting by the Signs June 2022
Growing melons Our garden is growing by leaps and bounds! I swear my rattlesnake beans and tomatoes in the back…
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Finding Treasures in the Garden
“It seems anymore that most areas make me wonder about their history, and gardens have a way of unfolding history…
