Storing Onions
We never grow onions to store through the winter. We plant the type of onions that are best eaten as…
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Deputizing Blind Pig and The Acorn Lettuce Reporters @ Large
This year Sow True Seed has graciously donated extra lettuce seed so that I can deputize @ Large Lettuce Reporters during…
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Look the Beans
Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English Look transitive verb To examine (food), inspect for dirt or foreign objects. 1982 Slone How…
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Leather Britches
leather britches, leather britches beans noun Green beans put on a thread or string (as at a bean stringing), dried…
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It’s Lay By Time
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 – July 2017
The Deer Hunter and I wanted to get a late planting of beans, cucumbers, and squash in the ground,…
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Wild Berries in Appalachia
This time of the year, I start checking on the blackberries that grow wild around my house. The berries are just…
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How Does My Garden Grow?
Our garden is lush and beautiful. Everything is thriving and things are beginning to produce. Fresh veggies = the best…
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Help a Blind Pig Reader Solve a Mystery
A few days ago I received the following email from Blind Pig and The Acorn reader Sue Simmons: Tipper…
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Planting by the Signs Calendar – June 2017
We’ve been getting plenty of rain and sunshine and our garden is thriving because of it. We also topped off…
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Sevin Dust or a Natural Remedy for Garden Bugs?
Pap’s old sevin dust can We don’t usually have issues with bugs doing damage to our garden. There’s always Japanese…
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Jacob’s Onions
Jacob’s onion noun A green onion. 1975 Purkey Madison Co 53-54 A variety of vegetables grew in long neat rows;…
