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Harvest sweet potatoes before the vines are frostbitten at the latest. Frost on the vines can damage your crop, so if the vines get killed back by frost, cut the vines. Harvest the potatoes as soon as possible after cutting the vines because cold weather can adversely affect the storage time of sweet potatoes. In […]

For the past couple of weeks, I have tried to take photographs of my tomato plants but in the photographs they look like big green blobs. Tonight while dumping some tomato peelings on the compost pile after dark, I looked at the plants with the flashlight and noticed how one plant could stand out in […]

This is today’s harvest from my small backyard garden. From this we will eat the beans for dinner. I will dry the okra, zucchini, red clover, and spearmint. By the end of the day, I will have eaten the tomatoes. Since taking this photograph, they are already reduced by half. My love of fresh homegrown […]

[GU = Garden Update] This is a sweet potato update. Because I posted how I plant sweet potatoes, it seems appropriate that I should post an update on their progress. If you want to see the first post, it is here: Planting Sweet Potatoes. The sweet potatoes have been in the ground for 27 days. […]

The lettuce has grown quite a bit since the last time I wrote about growing it under a floating row cover. [http://www.donnayoung.org/blog/2008/05/30/lettuce-floating-row-cover/]. From the outside, the green of the lettuce shows through the cover.

I lifted up the back where the excess cover was rolled up and I gave the lettuce more growing space. While it […]