21 September 2009
Fruits: a celebration
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The peak harvests from our tomato crop are inevitably post-frost, but the tomatoes do ripen in a hurry after the plants begin to die back th...
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16 September 2009
The big and the little
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It's the big one... We've got whopping big potatoes this year, must be all the rain. And even this pound-and-a-halfer had barely a s...
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14 September 2009
The flavor of frost
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This is a gorgeous time of year, the temperatures have cooled off, and the mosquitoes, blackflies, biting midges, deerflies, and horseflies ...
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08 September 2009
Harvesting grains
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September heralds a harvest of a different nature, with a quickened pace to match the flurry of spring planting. These two peaks of activity...
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31 August 2009
August frost!
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An August frost snuck up on us this year. Not too surprising, we did have a frost warning on July 8th this summer, for goodness sake! With a...
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26 August 2009
Tomato (or Otherwise) Chutney
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I found a most delicious tomato chutney recipe, of East Indian inspiration, in an April 1981 Organic Gardening magazine. I modified it sligh...
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24 August 2009
Fungal diseases in the garden
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With the incredible rainfall we've had here in the east, there's been ample opportunity for fungal diseases in the garden. The late ...
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20 August 2009
Too much beauty
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There's just too much beauty in the garden, I simply must share... Syriphid Fly eating the nectar of a Calendula Flower. Northern Leopa...
18 August 2009
Growing small grains and seeds
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We are growing some test plots of small grains and seeds in the garden this year. Mostly, these plots have taught me about the growing condi...
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