Planting Cabbage
Our cabbage plants are the prettiest ones we’ve ever started. They were getting awful big and we finally got them…
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Red Bud Winter & Remnants of Fall Garden
Winter has returned to Brasstown. The warm temperatures we’ve been enjoying have skedaddled for the next several days. We know…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Matt Har’d the Garden
Matt got the big garden har’d this week. Seeing all that rich dirt turned over makes me anxious for planting…
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Planting by the Signs for March 2026
Before I started the Blind Pig and The Acorn I never knew much about planting by the signs. I had…
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Bitter Cold and Up Potting Seedlings
Our spring like weather disappeared over the last couple of days. Bitter cold has worked its way into Wilson Holler….
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Using Granny’s Mulch
Last fall Matt helped me remove some overgrown hostas from the bed under the kitchen window that flows down to…
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The Birth of Pap’s Big Garden
Pap tilling his garden We’ve all been staying at Granny’s more since she’s doing so poorly. Mostly we sit around…
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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…
