I wish I had thought if this before. We always save some squash seeds every year to plant. Then we compost the rest, and some squash comes up in the compost. This year I decided to try Butternut Squash Sprouts. They are so easy to start and delicious cooked or raw. Actually, you could sprout…
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Gardening July 2014
We’re pretty consistent with our vegetable production this year. I planted squash late to avoid the squash bugs, and so far it’s been successful. I harvested our first white squash this week. There’s a volunteer butternut squash plant that came up from one of the compost stacks, and it’s started producing. Of course, I harvested…
Gardening April 2013
I harvested our first Paris Market Carrots this week, and they’re delicious. I’m so pleased with how everything is doing. The collards, Swiss chard, beets, Chinese cabbage, Siberian kale, and Red kale are all doing great. Lettuce is still doing well, and asparagus is hard to keep up with. I am keeping all the greens…
Gardening in Winter
Mother Earth Newsletter had some great articles about composting, preparing for winter, winter gardening, and how to clean vegetables. Before we go into that, in case you still aren’t convinced gardening is for you, let me share an article from Prevention magazine this month. Here’s the article as it appeared: Dig in the dirt According…