Category Archives: Squash

Maintenance & Prepwork For Sweet Potatoes

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Tom

Yeah, trying sweet potatoes this year.  Have meant to for a while, but the amount of work was beyond me physically for a few years.  So, it was that, and some general maintenance on what is in the ground already … Continue reading →

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Pretty Much Done

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Tom

I worked from dinner to dark on Friday, dawn to dusk on Saturday, and tried to work in wet clay after a rain on Sunday.  The size of the garden is what it is.  I am not going to try … Continue reading →

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So Much To Do

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Tom

I spent Saturday and Sunday out at the two gardens I am doing with the Adickes family.  One is the (primarily) potato garden at Jerid’s dad’s place, and then the big garden at the Adickes family farm.  Patti and kids … Continue reading →

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Memorial Weekend, Ness And Adickes

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Tom

That picture is from the end of the say on Saturday.  Patti and Jerid watching half of the various detritus Jerid needs to get rid of.    Biggest bonfire I have seen in a long time. That was not how the … Continue reading →

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Mother’s Day Weekend

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Tom

It was a busy weekend, with better weather than the weather prognosticators were predicting.  Heavy rains held off until the late evening Sunday.  Mother’s Day, all of us, including Patti’s mom, was spent down at my parent’s B&B south of … Continue reading →

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Trying 3 Sisters Style Planting ….. Again

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Tom

Some years ago I gave it a try, without knowing more than the growing beans up cornstalks and covering the ground with squash vines.  It was a bit of a disaster. Higher hopes this time.  I have a strong stalked … Continue reading →

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A Year In Pictures

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Tom

So, photos starting with last winter, up until a few weeks ago.  We lived through Christmas, I slept through the New Year, and here we are in 2015.  Hope you enjoy this look back, and stay with us through the … Continue reading →

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Still At It

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Tom

Last night I and my girls shelled popcorn.  We were going to be meeting a friend, and making a trade, the next day (today) and a third of the popcorn was a portion of what we were trading. Another part … Continue reading →

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Growing Time Ends

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Tom

And now Claire is a year older.  Damn.  This is going fast. Cousins came to help her celebrate.  That was 6 days ago. Today it is 50 degrees cooler, and snow is expected.  <shrug> Minnesota in early October.  We have … Continue reading →

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Baby Vi C. Mochata

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Tom

In an absolutely shitty year for winter squash, where cold, wet, rot, and squash bugs ruled the gardens, this squash, and only this squash, did well for us. This is one I bred, and then named after Violet was born, … Continue reading →

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