This year’s garden is amazing! All the soil additives and treatments have paid off amazingly! This is the purple bok choy, beet leaves, and peas that I harvested this morning for an Asian salad later today. The lettuce is still going strong, being shaded by the rutabaga and beet leaves. The potatoes are flowering, andContinue reading “New year, new garden”
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Harvested the deer potates today. (These are the ones the deer tend to kill off early by eathing all the leaves off. 🙄) For the fact they had a shortened grow time, this is a really good haul! Almost 2 lbs of potatoes, a lot of them perfect for boiling and roasting then making into potato salad! I’ll be planting sunflowers in their space. I also have the potato bags to harvest, but they are still going so I’ll wait till a week after the last leaf dies to harvest those.
Scarcity
I remember when I was little, my mom would take me and my sister to the local grocery store. This was back before the huge strip malls and corporations had built their headquarters just down the road, and there were strawberry fields and orange orchards as far as the eye could see.
