Planting by the Signs Calendar for September 2020
Our summer garden is just about done for. We’re still getting okra, tomatoes, a few cucumbers, and a few beans,…
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Onion, Ungon, or Ingun?
I made a video about our recent onion harvest and discussed onion uses in Appalachia—including in Appalachian language. I finished…
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Planting by the Signs Calendar for August 2020
Can you believe its August? I cannot fathom where this year has went. Our garden is still trucking along. A…
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Easy Recipe for Squash and/or Zucchini Pickles
A few weeks back The Deer Hunter put in a request for squash pickles. I had plenty of squash and…
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Homemade Harvest Basket
Over the years we’ve mostly harvested garden items by carrying a 5 gallon bucket around. Somehow over the winter a…
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Come See My Garden
Today I’m sharing another garden tour with you. I can’t believe how much everything has grown since the last video….
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Putting up Food
The time for putting up food has arrived. We spent Saturday afternoon in the kitchen doing just that. From here…
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It’s Lay By Time at the Blind Pig House
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 Calendar for July 2020
We’ve always known about succession planting and we usually try to do two planting of things like squash, cucumbers, and…
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Walk in the Garden with Me
Today I’m going to take you on a garden walk. I shot the video last week, and already wish I…
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The Smell of Plum Grannys
“Momma filled up baskets with them, and sat them everywhere in the house, mostly in front of open windows. She…
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Our New Old Asparagus Bed
Over the weekend we revamped our asparagus bed. The bed is about ten years old. Hubert Kirkland, who I interviewed…
