Lots of them this summer. I am boiling them up into something that can either be finished as a red sauce or made into soup. They are about as good as I have ever grown. The best variety this year is cluster grande . They produce five or six perfect...
Topics: Harvest

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You would think from the number of posts here that nothing has been happening in the Northview Dairy farm garden. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Th is year we have had the best garden in years. It sure has been fun to take care of it. We have.
Topics: Gathering, Harvest, Herbs

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Petunia Dolce Flambe I have decided that I like it after all Came home to a garden gone crazy. Weeds were even worse. I hilled potatoes, cleared a lot of amaranth and lambsquarters out of the hot peppers and picked a bunch of over-sized zucchini. Froze...
Topics: Gathering

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And everything is weird. It rains almost every day. Always enough to shut down the haying. Never enough to actually get the plants wet. I have had to water all the bucket and pot plants all summer. The winesap apple set lots of fruit , but most of them...
Topics: Flowers, Planting

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Liz and I put the last of the tomatoes into the ground today ...not that I don't have more plants, because I do...just no more room. I will try to get at least some of the rest into containers....in fact I need to go out right now and do that. I also.
Topics: Food, Planting

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