Category: Grow What You Eat

Grow What You Eat

Potato Harvest 2023

🌱πŸ₯” A Harvest Worth its Weight in Potatoes πŸ₯” 🌱🌞 This weekend, my potato patch treated me to an absolute treasure trove: 128 pounds of deliciousness, a magical mix of Yukon Gold and Russet potatoes! πŸ₯³πŸ₯‡ Can you π˜€π—Ίπ—²π—Ήπ—Ή the earthy aroma already? 🀀 But hey, this isn’t just a boastful brag about the weight

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Garlic Crop Cured and Ready for Storage

I prepped my cured garlic this morning. I ended up with 57 awesome heads of garlic for our pantry! Not too shabby for basically a set and forget plant. The basket these are in, is huge. These heads should hold for several months as long as I keep their environment happy. Gardeners store their garlic

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2023 Garlic Harvest

This morning I harvested 76 heads of garlic! Of the 76, I had 9 that were bad. So, I currently have 67 heads curing in the garage! I’m super stoked about this year’s harvest! Garlic, carrots, and onions are crops that I’ve struggled the most with, so it means a lot to me to grow

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Father’s Day Harvest for Dinner

This morning’s harvest was a small, green one. More peas to add to the batch waiting to freeze dry. My Spring peas are about to come to an end due to the heat. The cabbage is for a Southern Fried Cabbage recipe I’m making today for Brett to go with the homemade potato salad and

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Garden Update

This morning I worked in the garden and gathered a quick morning harvest of peas. This small harvest resulted in 3 cups. I blanched them and prepared them for the freezer. My spring peas are used for fresh eating, adding to other items to process, or freeze-drying. Will this feed my family for an entire

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Me Time in the Garden

Spent the morning in the garden pruning and tying up 78 tomato plants. I love coming out early and enjoying the quiet before the busyness of the day begins. This time allows me to reflect on any plans I have for the day, as well as make future plans. I often find myself walking around

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Preserving Beans from the Old Garden

Today I took some time to put my feet up and finish up some vegetable preserving from the old garden. I shelled all of my Cherokee Trail of Tears beans. In total, I got 2lbs. and 9 ounces when all was said and done. Not bad for just throwing some seeds in the ground and

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