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Preserving Sweet Potatoes for Future Planting Success
Howdy! Have you ever wondered how to keep some of your harvested sweet potatoes for planting the following year? Let me share some tips we use here to hang onto sweet potatoes for next year’s planting stock. So, today while cleaning out the Veggie-Bed, we found some sweet potatoes hiding in the soil. We’re going…
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Garlic Chives: Essential Late-Season Food for Bees at the Veggie-Bed
The three main types of chives are standard garlic chives, flowering chives (which have a stronger flavor), and yellow chives (which are milder and grown without direct sunlight). For several reasons bees are particularly attracted to the garlic chives’ flowers growing here at the Veggie-Bed. The garlic chives produce flowers rich in nectar and pollen,…
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Lucy-Lou: My Loyal Companion and Guide Through Recovery
Meet Lucy-Lou, my most loyal companion. We crossed paths at the funeral reception that my kindhearted cousins hosted for my mother. At that time, I was struggling with depression, alcohol, and prescription drug abuse. After the reception, my family walked with me to a barn where I met an adorable 8-week-old puppy who captured my…
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Harvesting Wellness: The Synergy of Vegetable Gardening and Chakra Meditation
With the hustle and bustle of summer fading away, it is time to switch modes to the quietude of the cooler seasons to come. As a long-time gardener and practitioner of chakra meditation (which focuses on the body’s energy centers to promote balance and greater awareness of our existence), this is truly a time for…
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Unexpected Germination: Granny Smith Apple Seed in Refrigerator
Last April, we bought some Granny Smith apples and stored them in the crisper drawer in the refrigerator. We forgot all about them, and they stayed in the fridge for over a month. Surprisingly, one of the apple seeds germinated in the cold condition of the refrigerator. Apple seeds require this cold stratification process before…
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A Gardening Surprise: Discovering Sweet and Hot Banana Peppers
Today, we picked the last handful of sweet banana peppers from the garden. I decided to plant a variety of yellow sweet banana peppers to add some color to the Veggie-Bed this year. To our surprise, one of the four plants turned out to be hot peppers, which we didn’t realize until I had taken…
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Resilient Tiny Yellow Watermelon in Urban Garden | Eco-Friendly Growing
This tiny yellow watermelon is the only survivor from a volunteer plant that started in our neighbor’s garden. When we moved it to the Veggie-Bed in the middle of July, it had a tough time adjusting to its new surroundings. We’re really hoping for a long summer so that this little guy has a chance…
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