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The Three Sisters Garden
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This year at the Derwood Demo Garden we acquired some new planting space, which I decided to use for a growing technique we just haven’t had the square footage for in many years: a Three Sisters garden. Growing corn, beans,…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Beans, Corn, Squash, Three Sisters, Watermelon
Summer lettuce update
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One of my goals at the Derwood Demo Garden this year was to keep lettuce growing through the whole season. So far it’s working! Here it is July; we’ve had a rain break following some hot dry weeks, and today…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Lettuce
Cabbage harvest
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Vegetable gardeners are of different minds about growing spring cabbage. There are those who love everything about this crop: the joy of watching seedlings that look like any other brassica gradually wrap their leaves around each other to form heads;…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening, Master Gardener Tags: Author:Erica, Cabbage, caraflex
Protecting tomatoes against the cold
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A picture worth at least a few words, which are: we are still expecting some cold nights coming up, so if you have tomatoes in the ground or are putting them in soon, give them some protection! I couldn’t wait…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Tomatoes
The year without a blueberry
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Every year in the garden seems to teach a lesson about how things change. This year, I’ve been disappointed in my blueberries. I wrote a post a few years ago about my blueberries and how I always manage to harvest…
Read MoreCategory: Uncategorized Tags: Author:Erica, Birds, Blueberries
Not putting the tomatoes in yet
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Skinny tomato seedlings yearn for the sun “Have you put your tomatoes in yet?” The question echoes through all the vegetable gardens in chilly rain-soaked Maryland. And no, mine aren’t in yet, despite having sat on my back porch desperately…
Read MoreCategory: Uncategorized Tags: Author:Erica, Weather, Year of Tomatoes
Edema on pepper seedlings
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One of our demo garden MGs brought a pepper seedling leaf in last week with small bumps on the bottom, near veins. It looked healthy otherwise and didn’t have apparent active insects. Then the same thing happened to my pepper…
Read MoreCategory: Uncategorized Tags: Author:Erica, Starting from Seed
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