The Best Heirloom Tomatoes
Last summer was the first year The Deer Hunter and I tried growing heirloom tomatoes. The term-heirloom-refers to tomatoes that are non-hybrid-meaning…
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Blind Pig & The Acorn’s 2nd Annual Planting By The Signs Test Results
Summer is winding down and the results from the Blind Pig & the Acorn’s 2nd Annual Planting by the Signs…
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Planting By The Signs For August 2010
My summer garden is winding down. I do believe it’s the best garden we’ve ever had. The lack of rain has almost…
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The Silver Queen Has Arrived
Over the last week we’ve been enjoying one of the delicacies of summer-fresh corn straight from the garden. We always plant Silver Queen…
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Planting By The Signs July 2010
So far my July has been hot and dry-and the garden isn’t really enjoying the weather. We’ve been watering the garden…
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Cooking Beets
Thanks to the generosity of Hometown Seeds-this is the first year we’ve tried our hand at growing Beets. As you can…
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Volunteer Vegetable Plants
Do you ever find volunteer plants growing in your garden? Usually the seed sprouts from produce that was left on…
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Planting By The Signs June 2010
Can you believe June is here? I can’t-seems like just yesterday we were celebrating the new year. All our gardens are…
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Blind Pig & The Acorn’s 2nd Annual Planting By The Signs Test
Yesterday we kicked off the 2nd Annual Blind Pig & the Acorn Planting By The Signs Test. This year’s test was…
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That Early Mess Of Lettuce And Onions
Ethelene Dyer Jones sent me the following piece about her memories of eating from the spring garden as a child: That…
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Planting By The Signs For May 2010
My spring garden is in it’s full glory-I’ve got leafy lettuce and spinach; round red radishes, and green onions galore. My…
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Planting By The Signs For April 2010
So far I’ve accomplished my goal of planting by the signs this year-well I’ve had one minor glitch-but I’m still claiming…
