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Don’t grow these edible plants! (unless you really want to)
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It’s seed catalog season! If you’re anything like me, you’re paging through them right now marking possible purchases for the 2022 growing season. (Happy New Year, by the way.) On my first pass, I always mark much more than I…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica
Growing and using blackcurrants
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Gardeners adding fruit to their landscapes tend to think first of familiar treats such as raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries, which are all great to grow in our region, or fruit trees like apples and peaches, which present some challenges but…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, currants, Fruits
November Harvests: Aconcagua, Senposai, and Watermelon Radish
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Earlier this week, I finally took all the pepper plants out of my community garden plot, in anticipation of a predicted frost. It’s ridiculous that I was still harvesting peppers in November, but this is the world we live in….
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Asian greens, Author:Erica, Fall Gardening, paprika, Peppers, Senposai, watermelon radish
Plants not behaving as expected: vegetable garden edition
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Two of the vegetable crops I grew this year are known for loving the heat: okra and eggplant. I grow eggplant in pots on my deck, to avoid flea beetle infestation, and okra directly in the ground in my community…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Climate Change, Eggplant, Fall Gardening, heat, Okra, pollination, soil nutrients, Squash, zucchini
Gardening resolutions 2020
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Happy New Year! At the beginning of January we typically think through what we plan to do better in the coming twelve months in all aspects of our lives, whether that’s reading more books or committing to a fitness program…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Climate Change, Fruits, Garden Planning, gifts, herbs, organizing
Halloween vegetable stories and a squash update
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Hope everyone enjoyed a spooky, stormy Halloween. Above is the oversized turnip that my mom carved a few years ago in accordance with the pre-pumpkin British Isles tradition. You can read about carving turnips in this Atlas Obscura story. I have…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Halloween, Kale, mosaic virus, Turnips, zucchini
The green tomato dilemma; or, will this fruit get any riper?
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I was reminded on social media this morning of an article published back in June by John Porter on the Garden Professors blog. It’s about which fruits (some of which are vegetables in a culinary sense) continue to ripen after…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Fall Gardening, kiwis, ripening, Tomatoes
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