Growing Plants Inside During Winter
We’ve been enjoying the greens in our fall garden. Bitter cold has moved into the mountains of southern Appalachia. I’m…
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We Grew One Watermelon
We grew one watermelon this year and it was a volunteer. We never have good luck with watermelons or cantaloupes,…
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Heavy Mast in Wilson Holler
mast noun A season’s accumulation of fruit of the forest forming the natural diet of bears, wild hogs, and other…
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How Our Fall Garden Is Doing
Our fall garden is really thriving! We’ve had frequent rains and mostly warm temperatures during the last two months so…
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Sorghum Memories
When I was a kid–many many years ago–just a few miles from us lived a gentleman who made sorghum and…
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The Best Radishes of the Year
Yesterday I pulled up most of the radishes we planted in our fall garden. I don’t remember the exact variety…
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Growing Ed’s Beans
A few years ago I sent Ed Ammons a handful of greasy beans for him to grow. The dried bean…
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Planting by the Signs for September 2025
Our garden is about done for this year. We still have okra, malabar spinach, and peppers producing well. And if…
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It Might Be An Orange Cushaw
Blind Pig reader Bill Dotson may have solved my winter squash mystery. Bill said it looked like an orange cushaw…
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Strange Winter Squash
Our winter squash didn’t do well last summer because of the dry weather. This year we’ve had ample rain but…
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Planting by the Signs for August 2025
It’s been a great garden year for us. The only thing we can really complain about is the winter squash…
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Enjoying the Corn
We’ve been eating fresh corn straight from the garden about every day and it is so good! Matt and I…
