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Heatless hot peppers
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I’ve been using this current cold snap to get my seed orders together, and one thing I am planning to grow this season is a few not-so-hot peppers. Not in the “yuck, far from delicious” sense, but in the “surprisingly…
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My Accidental Taro Adventure
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I grew taro this year pretty much by accident. Here’s how it happened. This spring I gave a talk on root vegetables to a lovely group of seniors. For this talk, I like to buy a bunch of widely assorted…
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Summer vegetable review 2017
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We’re having a remarkably warm October here in Maryland, and some of the summer crops are still producing, but really, the season is over and it’s just a matter of time before it all goes in the compost heap. This…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Beans, Peppers, Squash, Tomatoes
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…
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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…
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