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Garden Planning, Winter Harvests and Speaking Events
Garden Planning Field Manual Photo VABF ‘Tis the season – after the relaxation of the holidays – time for garden planning. Inventory your seeds left from last year, peruse the catalogs and prepare your...
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Alliums for May: harvesting garlic scapes, scallions and fall-planted potato...
Pickled garlic scapes, okra and beets.Photo Bridget Aleshire This is the first of a new monthly series of blog-posts on Alliums for the Month, which, like my previous series on lettuce and Asian...
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Fall vegetable production – my presentation
<div style=”margin-bottom:5px”> <strong> <a href=”http://www.slideshare.net/SustainableMarketFarming/fall-vegetable-production-60min” title=”Fall vegetable production (60min) – Pam...
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Summer reading
The August issue of Growing for Market magazine is out (the June-July issue was the most recent previous one). This one includes my article on Last Chance Sowings. In line with my advice, at home we...
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What’s still alive at 14F?
Winter garden scene.Credit Ezra Freeman One of my ongoing topics of interest in the garden is how cold-tolerant various vegetables are. We’ve now had two nights at 14F (-10C) and several others in the...
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What’s still alive after two nights at 4F?
Recently I reported on which crops were still alive after two nights at 14F (-10C) and several others in the teens. We’ve now had the Arctic Vortex, which in our part of central Virginia, meant two...
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What’s still standing after two nights below 0F?
Recently I reported on which crops were still alive after two nights at 14F (-10C) and What’s still alive after two nights at 4F? We’ve now had the Polar Vortex, which brought us two nights at 4F, on...
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Chert Hollow Farm on Organic certification, More Snow, Feed the Soil...
Chert Hollow Farm’s photos of their farm gate before and after. For some time I have been following the blog of Eric and Joanna Reuter of Chert Hollow Farm near Columbia, Missouri. I admire their...
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Alliums for January: sow scallions, cipollini, shallots
Clumps of scallion transplants in a plug flat, ready to transplant.Photo Pam Dawling Plant scallions, shallots, cipollini mini-onions, small potato onions In January, one of the first crops we sow is...
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Alliums for February: garlic scallions, digging leeks from frozen soil
September-planted (left) and November-planted (right) beds of potato onions in April.Photo Kathryn Simmons Plant small potato onions (less than 1.5″ (4 cm) diameter) in early Feb, if not Jan. See...
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