Delicata squash seeds

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I wasn’t planning to grow Delicata again, but I’ve changed my mind. Last night I baked two little squashes grown in my community plot last summer. Fantastic. Sweet and smooth. I’ve never tired this variety and didn’t expect it to be so good. I’m used to Acorn, which has stringer flesh and a squashier taste. So I’ve edited my planting list yet again. I think I’ll grow Delicata and Butternut this year for winter squashes. The Delicata seeds I grew this year were from a package my neighbor shared with…
 
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just borrowing bloggers photos?

 
 
Well, another site is using garden bloggers’ photos and posts without permission. I’m not going to post a link. Presumably they make enough from ads to make it worth their time to set up the site and copy posts. Its a pretty small world, though, and things get noticed pretty fast (Here’s Tyra’s post). Many bloggers’ told the site to remove their photos. Several of my posts and photos remain. These photos link back to my FLickR site. I’ve added a note to the photos that links back to Skippy’s…
 
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16 inches of new snow

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Boston got a total of just over 16 inches of snow over the past couple days. Skippy and I took a walk to the community gardens to look at my plot. It looks like a different place under the blanket of white. Skippy and I couldn’t walk much in the deep snow. I’d need to come back with snow shoes or skis.
 
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humble leek and potato soup

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Marian Morash says this is a “perfectly simple, humble soup is wonderful for supper on a cold, wet day”. I got the recipe from page 158 of the Victory Garden Cookbook, but substituted celeriac for celery and plain yogurt for heavy cream. It was absolutely fantastic! Gretta pulled this leek from her field last week. (The potatoes, onion and celeriac are from her CSA share.) I’m thinking of growing leeks next year, so I looked up some information. Leeks are another vegetable that do well very late into the cold…
 
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winter solstice

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The shortest and darkest day of the year. But definitely a cause for celebration! Our days now begin to lengthen. I much prefer the seasons with lengthening days – every day is brighter than the day before. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice occurs on December 21, 2008 at 7:04 AM EST and 12:04 UT (Universal Time).
 
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outsourcing vegetable gardening and CSAs

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Here’s a wild new idea. Excerpts: … MyFarm is an enterprise that puts vegetable gardens into people’s backyards, then sends a gardener once a week to do upkeep and harvest, leaving fresh produce behind … Trevor Paque calls his enterprise a “decentralized urban farm.” … aims to turn under-used, overgrown backyards into plots of green that will provide organically grown food …. what makes Paque’s venture different is that he sees all the gardens as merely components of one large farm …. His plan is to take that land and…
 
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snowy garden

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We got about 8 inches (as predicted). The kale is just barely sticking out of the snow. I’ll have to make some kale soup soon as its tastes best when picked from under the snow. I have a couple potatoes and a leeks for tonight, but will look forward to kale and kielbasa soup soon.
 
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it’s snowing tonight!

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At 9 pm, the snow is coming down fast. Skippy and I will have to do some diggin’ to find my patch of kale tomorrow. Heck, I don’t even think we’ll be able to find the garden out there ….
 
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the gray before the storm

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I hear Boston has some weather moving in. This may be the last of our brown and gray fields. We didn’t get last week’s ice storm – only rain. But we’re expecting 2 inches of snow tonight, another 6 on Friday and then a third storm on Sunday …..
 
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Kathy Martin
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy


weeks and counting until my last spring frost

What I planted recently

Jan 21
thyme, lettuce, escarole

Feb 21
celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

March 11
cabbage, kale, arugula



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April 1
peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

April 12
tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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