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Labor Day Farm Garden video
I took a video of the farm garden on Labor Day! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpTea6syX8U …
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Farm Garden July 22 Update
WOW, is all I can say. Everything is exploding. The white and yellow corn is over 7 feet tall and tasseling. The ears on the yellow corn are filling out. The squash and pumpkins are taking over. I have at least one good nice sized watermelon. I've been thinning out the beets and harvesting a bunch. The new swiss chard seedlings are growing well. I thought the garden was booming a couple weeks ago but now it's super booming, so we're thinking on getting a fence to protect all the product from our …
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It’s Golden
It's chokecherry season and my two little trees were loaded. I took these photos about a week ago. The red cherries were just about ripe. I was hoping they would hang on until this weekend as I was traveling out of town and could not pick them at their peak. Well, I guess they peaked because the tree was stripped bare by the time I got back to it. The birds didn't leave me a single cherry. The golden chokecherries, however, were just hitting their peak of ripeness. I picked 5.6 pounds off of …
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Booming July at the Farm
Zucchini growing waist high. Pumpkins spreading out. Beets being harvested. Corn tasseling. It's not just the fireworks booming in July. The Farm Garden is growing beyond my expectations. I knew being a horse pasture that my soil was fertile. But I never realized what a difference it makes having rich soil coupled with full sun! My little shaded city garden is growing well but nothing like this. The giant sunflowers are already over 5 feet tall. I've pulled all the spinach and lettuce I can eat …
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Farm Garden Update
The farm garden is doing surprisingly well despite the spotty herbicide contamination. Other than the beans and half of the tomatoes, the rest of the garden is lush and producing. Things are growing rapidly. The corn is already knee high and it's not yet the 4th of July. I have already harvested a lot of spinach and some lettuces. The cucumbers are growing by leaps and bounds. The squash is exploding. And the beets are starting to bulb out already. Even the brandywine tomatoes and watermelon …
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City Garden Update
TIme for an update. The small city garden has been producing! And it is only July 1! Unbelievable year. I pulled my first beets and they are nearly full size. I think this is the earliest I've had beets from the garden here in Fargo. We've been eating peas like mad. They never make it into a pot. We love them raw. I'm constantly snacking on them and we have a bumper crop this year. Here are some pictures. The perennials in front are getting a bit overgrown and weedy, you can buy knf inputs form …
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