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Sam

@garden-to-eat

Passionate vegetable gardener, health nut, freedom advocate, cook of simple meals and good food

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Sam
@garden-to-eat May 20, 2018, 11:00 AM UTC

Three Spinach Crops

My first spinach crop, which was planted last September, is done now but not before three or four weeks of producing nice dark green leaves for my salads. I wasn’t sure the fall crop was going to mak…

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Sam
@garden-to-eat May 16, 2018, 6:34 PM UTC

How Hard Can You Cut Back Strawberries?

Last year my strawberries plants grew very thick and spread outside my pyramid box I had built for them. Although they produced a lot of strawberries, it was very wet during harvest and many were los…

7 upvotes 6 replies $0.18
Sam
@garden-to-eat May 15, 2018, 10:41 AM UTC

Pruning Blueberry Bushes

Every year I prune my blueberry bushes to encourage large plump berries and to keep my bushes under control. I’ve trimmed them in the fall, late winter, and early spring but I believe early spring ri…

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Sam
@garden-to-eat May 13, 2018, 8:28 PM UTC

Getting an Early Start on Tomatoes

To get tomatoes early in the growing season I plant big healthy early girls that I started 6-7 weeks earlier in my basement under my grow lights. I take a chance and put them in two weeks before the…

13 upvotes 12 replies $1.08
Sam
@garden-to-eat Jan 20, 2018, 10:52 PM UTC

Pacific and Indian Oceans Influences Our Weather

There are many features in the atmosphere and oceans used by forecasters to get an idea of future weather but a main driver for our winters in the Eastern US is the tropical Pacific and Indian oceans…

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Sam
@garden-to-eat Sep 26, 2017, 11:03 PM UTC

Second Raspberries Doing Well

In my post back in June I talked about primocanes and floricanes. https://steemit.com/gardening/@garden-to-eat/the-other-red-berry Well the Floricanes have produced and been cut down but the primocan…

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Sam
@garden-to-eat Aug 30, 2017, 11:29 AM UTC

Lima Beans Incoming

My favorite bean is probably fresh limas. Frozen, canned, or dried limas do not compare to the ones picked and shelled from the garden. This of course does not come without a fair amount of work. The…

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Sam
@garden-to-eat Aug 26, 2017, 8:40 PM UTC

Herbs Need Little Attention

The biggest challenge with most herbs is keeping them under control. Perennial herbs need little water once they are established and can grow in poor soil without any fertilizer. In fact fertilizer m…

51 upvotes 16 replies $0.88
Sam
@garden-to-eat Aug 21, 2017, 12:21 PM UTC

ColorChallenge: Monday red - Tomatoes Everywhere

They are in bowls, on the counter, and in the freezer (and of course in my stomach).

14 upvotes 15 replies $0.01
Sam
@garden-to-eat Aug 20, 2017, 6:27 PM UTC

A Fall Garden in Hardiness Zone 7

So now that summer in the northern hemisphere is winding down and a lot of the harvest is in, it’s time to get the fall garden going full speed. As spring and summer crops finish and old plants are p…

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