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September 2013 Post Produce
The Yellow French Filet climbing beans I planted this year have been terrific! These are my new favorite and will have a place in my garden every year. Summer is over!!! My kitchen garden could use a...
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Half Purple Beans!
Blossoms on my purple bush bean plants were delicious shades of purple—some of the richest color in the kitchen garden this year. Purple beans are vaguely exotic and quite pretty. Until this year, I’d...
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Grow a Larder Full of Produce
A late-night snack of plain yogurt dressed with homemade sour cherry jam is healthful and delicious. Get the most out of your home vegetable gardening by learning to preserve. As I sat down to write...
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Get Some Gardening Friends
Here’s a useful gardening tip: find a group of people that shares your enthusiasm and participate with them. My first group of gardening friends happened to be online when I started blogging about...
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Crazy, Unlikely October Bloom Day!
My poblano pepper plants have been slow out of the gates. There are some large, green fruits on them (finally), but there are far more new blossoms. These, I’m afraid, will be disappointed by frost...
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Perfect, Pretty Peppers!
I’ve had a terrific harvest of purple jalapeno peppers, though I let most of the peppers ripen to bright red rather than picking them purple. Serious cold in the next two days will quite likely end...
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Loving Autumn
Between home and Ithaca (which is three hours north), one of my earliest autumn images comes from my front yard. Leaves on the maple tree there have been changing from green to flaming red and yellow...
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Homemade Quince Candy
Quince are naturally fuzzy, but it seems almost as though the fuzz isn’t attached. You could wipe each fruit with a cloth, but the fuzz washes off easily in water. Making quince candy is an easy and...
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Pak Choi in November
I needed about 10 of my homegrown, late-season pak choi plants to come anywhere close to the amount I’d have gotten from a single commercially-grown plant. Still, it made a great stir-fry. Honestly, I...
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One Hundred Pounds of Squash
It was love at first sight when I came upon this display at a farmers’ market. A fully ripe Fairytale Squash is light brown like the one on the left under the halved squash in the photo. I harvested...
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Summer Squash is a Choice You Make
I harvested this fully-mature zucchini just before frost in late October or early November. It has lived with my winter squash for about three months and shows no sign of decay. Its durability has...
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Vegetable Seed Giveaway for 2014!
Neck Pumpkins! These are common in central Pennsylvania, but rare elsewhere. I hope you’ll enter the giveaway and introduce these amazing squashes to another part of the US. Enthusiasts love these for...
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Seeds Have Left the Cityslipper Ranch!
I wasn’t in great shape when it was time to pack and mail seeds. Happily, I had enough complete seed sets for everyone who qualified in the giveaway. It has been a rough month: harsh punctuation to a...
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Start Your Own Seedlings
One week old tomato seedlings grow under lights in my office. While I planted 16 seeds per container, some didn’t sprout. There are, perhaps, 70 going strong. To the right are pepper seedlings barely...
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Runup to Spring Planting
On February 15th in Ithaca, NY, a snowstorm added several inches to a well-established snow pack. By this time, there was a similar covering in Lewisburg, PA, though a few February storms passed...
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