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…
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Tomatoes are Coming in Fast
Our tomatoes are coming in faster than we can eat them so the annual process of putting the extra bounty…
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Might Be A Cabbage Butterfly
The other day I went out in the backyard to harvest some things from the garden and noticed white butterflies…
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Volunteers Gone Wild
volunteerA nounOften used attributively: an unsown plant or crop of vegetables or grain that comes up from old seeds either late…
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The First Tomato Sandwich
THE MATCHLESS TOMATO Corn may be the bastion of Appalachian foodstuffs, thanks to its incredible versatility, but arguably tomatoes come…
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Breaking Beans
Our green beans have done really well this year and we are thrilled! We eat a lot of green beans….
