Category Archives: Garden

Starting Sweet Potato Slips

Not only are sweet potatoes packed with calcium, potassium, vitamin A and vitamin C; they are also delicious! If you haven’t grown sweet potatoes before, I encourage you to add them to your garden this year. They really aren’t hard … Continue reading

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Ugly, Cracked Sweet Potatoes

We have been harvesting our sweet potatoes a few at a time for the past few weeks. We have had one frost but instead of digging all of them I just covered the plants with old blankets to protect them. … Continue reading

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Our First Winecaps!

We had our first winecap harvest this week! They were right along the edge of the box where some grass had grown. I know it’s not a big harvest, but we are excited!

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Fall Strawberries

With all the rain we have gotten the past two weeks, our everbearing strawberries are really producing again. All through the summer, they’ve produced a few strawberries here and there but now they are loaded with blooms, green strawberries and … Continue reading

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How Much Did It Cost to Plant all those Fruits and Nuts?

We have gotten our fruit and nut trees planted as well as our berry bushes and plants.  So how much did it cost to get them all? Here is the run down of what we planted, where we got it … Continue reading

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