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Planting Spinach
Last night I planted some spinach in my new raised bed (which is already half full of red cabbage, kale & mache). I didn’t have much luck last time I tried to start spinach so I used a different...
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For the Love of Popeye
My spinach seeds germinated wonderfully. I’m guessing I had about a 90% germination rate, which is great. When the plants grow a little bigger, I’ll use the thinnings as baby spinach – yum yum....
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My First Harvest of 2009
On Tuesday afternoon I was able to weigh in my first harvest of 2009 for the Freedom Harvest Challenge over at Freedom Gardens. This year they’re trying to get all the Freedom Gardeners to tally their...
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No Winter Garden
Last year at this time I was harvesting my first batch of spinach from the garden. Notice the sun and lack of snow, we currently have around 3 feet of snow on the raised beds. I planted some spinach...
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The First Spring Salad
On Thursday, when I was working outside, I harvested the first of the spinach that I overwintered in my hoop houses. It’s coming to life quite nicely this spring. The leaves on the ‘Giant Winter’ that...
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Giant is Right!
I’ve been out cleaning out the raised bed that housed the spinach that I overwintered. The plants started to bolt with the heat that we’ve been having. It seems that overwintered plants have gotten...
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Trial and Error
If you’ve read here long, you know that I love to grow different varieties of each vegetable. One of the main reasons for that is to discover which varieties do best in my climate and with my soil....
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