slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Back Forty
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The carrot curse seems to have lifted! Maybe, just maybe, this is my graduation year to green thumbdom. The proof will be in the squash. I have never ever been able to produce more than one of any kind of squash. Today we cut down the mimosa tree. Don’t fret, mimosa fans, it will grow…
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Oakleaf lettuce, amish deer tongue lettuce, beet greens, and broccoli
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It is amazing how little space 320 pounds of dirt takes up. But I put down a small narrow bed and expanded the little island bed I made in the front of the garden where there is the most sun. The island has watermelons, okra, butterbeans (okra and butterbeans are seeds I saved from last…
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Today’s harvest is radishes and peas. And spinach, but I ate that before I took this picture! I love to eat these peas raw. I don’t grow enough to have for a whole pot, just enough in waves so that I can have snacks in the garden as I work. Why did I ever cook…
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I came home from JCCFS to a healthy crop of grass seed. You see, our lawn mower, a cheap cantankerous machine that came with the purchase of our house in 2001, is in disrepair. We have occasionally been able to get it going by holding our mouths right and kicking the tires, but this time…
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I’m headed to John C. Campbell Folk School early tomorrow morning to stay until next Friday afternoon, so I’m gathering my thoughts as much as anything here today. I’ve done battle with a migraine all night so writing on the computer is probably not the wisest thing. I still need to go to Davis Design,…
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Yesterday, Sandy and I went by Charlie’s house and I showed Sandy his fishponds. We’re thinking about putting a little one in where the walnut tree was. As I’ve said before, it’s a shame to waste a good hole. I came home and planted the zephyr squash plants just before the rain began. I put…
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Yep, a cold front is coming in this weekend and lows are expected to be 38 Saturday and Sunday nights. But now the tomatoes are nicely hardened off, having survived one 38 degree night naked and then a 35-degree night under plastic. And the eggplants are nestled down under a Reemay blanket. I’m going to…
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I really enjoyed the slow food potluck we had at the Montessori School today. It was a good sized crowd – about 30-35 people – not so many to be overwhelming but enough to get a nice diversity of ages and interests. The food was great, but it was curious…there was not one single dessert!…
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The tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and potatoes survived their first night of 30’s temperatures, even though the wind blew the plastic off the frame over the tomatoes. The NOA web site reports that our low was 38 degrees. I’m bracing up for tonight’s expected light frost by reinforcing the frame with packing tape. I went to…
slowly she turned 