Harvesting Together in Appalachia
Admiring your harvest is one of the greatest satisfactions of gardening-you can see some of Granny’s in the photo above….
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Results of the Sow True Seed Cucumber Reporting @ Large
Sow True Seed Marketmore 76 Time for the final report on the Sow True Seed Cucumber Reporting @ Large project! Tipper:…
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How do You Pick Your Apples?
As I told you yesterday this is the largest apple crop we’ve ever harvested. Our trees are several years old…
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How Does My Garden Grow?
We’re still getting a few tomatoes and beans from the garden. I’ve been really excited about our first ever grape…
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Ever Ate a Ground Cherry?
All my life I heard Pap talk about ground cherries. He told me they grew wild alongside most everyone’s garden…
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Pap and his Cornfield
I wrote this post back in 2011 about making a trip to the cornfield with Pap. Yesterday morning I went to the…
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Shelly Beans
shelly bean noun Any large bunch bean that is removed from the shell and is good as a dried bean…
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Planting by the Signs for August 2016
The summer garden is winding itself down here at the Blind Pig house. We’re still getting plenty of tomatoes, cucumbers, squash,…
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The Corn is Tassling
Corn tasseling in Brasstown NC, 2016 tassel noun variant form of tossel. 1966-68 DARE (Brasstown NC, Spruce Pine NC). 1999…
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Sow True Seed Cucumber Reporting @ Large Update 2
Sow True Seed Marketmore 76 Here’s my latest update for the Blind Pig and The Acorn’s Sow True Seed Cucumber Reporters @…
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June Apples
A few days ago Blind Pig reader David Templeton left the following comment: Tipper, when we were kids back in…
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Cornfield Beans
Cornfield beans Cornfield bean noun A running green bean planted next to a corn plant so that it will climb…
