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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    Here's another update: As of 8/12 I've harvested 9303 grams at a garden produce price of $4.02 a pound. The peaches were harvested today - just over 1300 grams of peaches from my tree. This was the first year it produced. I have yet to harvest a tomato for the season though.
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    gardening at night

    Need some help here after a conversation last night. I'm not the only one who goes out and works in the garden at night wearing a head lamp right? Some times there just isn't enough daylight, or it's too hot, to get everything done. Even when sunset is after 9pm in late June.
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    Recipe Make ahead ideas

    This is a similar call out to what Dale posted. I'll have a need for several pre-made meals to just thaw / heat and eat. Thing is all my ideas tend to be heavy "winter food". How about ideas that are lighter for mid to late August? We just tossed three lasagnas into the freezer. I have...
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    Won't turning the big chunks in also start to rob the soil of nitrogen? You notice he never turned anything once the compost was down and the mulch was over it. I really need to build up some of my raised beds. I hope to spread at least a cubic yard of shredded leafs this fall (I collect from...
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    I have a few tabs on my sheet: notes - one column for dates, one with keyword (weather, planted, transplanted, etc.), and one field to just fill that in. I generally don't use this tab Harvest - date, crop (if tracking), weight - plus my dynamic fields for costs and totals layout - used...
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    Ha, in a few weeks I'll be incorporating my mustard greens into my diet. Sauteed with some garlic and a splash of red wine vinegar. Thanks for the links. I like how the first one is from Michigan State - I'm a 6 hour drive from there and grew up in then ran away from that state.
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    So Wombat, sounds like I'm following in your footsteps just a few years behind. The vast majority of my garden is either raised beds or medium to large containers. I do use mulches extensively but have not figured out how to use green manures. I try to get as much food out of the garden as...
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    Wombat, I'm at about the same level as you except for the green manure use. I try to grow edible stuff right up until the snow flies - or past at times - and start again as soon as the top few inches are thawed. I'm also applying some of the same recording methods to the garden as I do in my...
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    Peaches ripe while on tree?

    So this is my first year with peaches on my tree. While I know how to select ripe peaches from a grocer's I don't know when to pull the fruit from the tree. The fruit are getting to the size common in the markets and have turned bright orange / pink but are still rock hard. Should I let the...
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    Lockable Gate Latches

    I didn't really know where to post this but here may work. Yesterday someone was knocking on our front door which my wife didn't answer. A few minutes later the same person was knocking on our back door uninvited and unwelcome. To get to our back door she would have had to enter a gate in a...
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    How geeked out do you want to get? I have a spread sheet from last year where I logged the weight of each crop with the date harvested. This inventory was itemized by keyword such as "cherokee purple" "bell pepper" "green beans". I then wrote a few cells such that they dynamically displayed...
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    basil pesto

    I really need to expand my cooking range. Lately we've been on a paella kick - but chicken only due to seafood and rabbit cost. Other than pesto and pasta salads (noodles, chopped tomato, chopped basil, capers, olive oil, and a splash of redwine vinegar) what are some recipes where you can...
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    Last year I recorded both what I spent on my garden and the amount I harvested from it - or at least the part that made it inside so grape tomatoes and pea pods were greatly under recorded. Last year I harvested over 112 pounds of food which cost $1.77 a pound. I did have to spend a lot that...
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    Coping With Life's Changes

    Around here in Illinois we have people who make left hand turns from red across 4 lanes of traffic. The law as just tweaked this summer that a motorcycle or bike can blow a red light as long as they come to a full stop and there is no traffic crossing. I still can't believe this one. Not to...
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    Soil and Health website I just found

    Has anyone else found this site before: http://www.soilandhealth.org/index.html This is a Aussie digital library keyed to "holistic agriculture, holistic health and self-sufficient homestead living" I just stumbled onto it and it looks like a wealth of info but I have not dug too far in.
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    basil pesto

    I pinch the flowers, as most do also. Mine go until a hard frost too. But around here a hard frost is in the first half of October and normally we get a light frost in mid September. With some of our winters I am hit or miss with keeping thyme alive in the ground. Basil and rosemary don't...
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    cicada killer

    Normally I tend to let bugs go when found in my yard. I'll kill japanese beetles, slugs, and caterpillers but I also don't tend to over do it there either. Kind of a live and let live mentality - remember how well that worked in Europe a few years into the first world war... Anyway we had a...
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    My veggie garden

    I keep reading about pole beans being great but I've had trouble with them in the typical season length around here. Typically I just do bush beans. Will pole beans transplant out well or is there a fast to produce variety to try. I have plenty of space to go vertical for these but ground space...
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    basil pesto

    Usually by the end of the season the base stem / trunk of my basil plants is woody hard and about 3/4 inches in diameter.
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    basil pesto

    Well I've said a few times here that I can't grow enough basil and this year is no different. Mainly by saying that I mean we eat a lot of pesto, pasta salad with basil, pizza, and well more pesto. Today I made my first batch of pesto for the season as the plants were getting a little out...


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