Kerry’s Garden

Looking on the counter I see today’s haul. A dozen or so jalepenos for hot poppers, a quart of raspberries, a handfull each of blackberries and strawberries, a couple of zucchini and a few green tomatoes for frying. The Weatherbug calls for the possibility of rain today. I’ve known about this for a couple of [...]

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On Thursday the first of the Heritage raspberries (spring crop) and Thornfree blackberries started ripening. I have two Heritage raspberry patches next to each other. One for a fall crop (starts in mid Aug and goes till frost) and one for the spring crop (now till ?). I also have two varieties of blackberries, Thornfree [...]

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The weather this year has made pretty much everything early except me. I seem to be slower this year at getting everything in the ground. This weekend I tied up the tomaotes, planted the eggplant and some more hot peppers (cayenne and tobasco), a couple of pots of cucumbers as well as some basil I [...]

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I started out this morning planning to spend just 2 hours outside. I had a project that I thought was due on Monday and needed to get on it asap. Lo and behold I found out it wasn’t due till Thursday so… 10 hours later I am exhausted but oh so much is done. No [...]

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Yesterday I harvested the first batch of compost from my underground composter. I put the trash can in the ground last May. Over the summer and into the fall I put what didn’t go into either the worm bin, compost pile or other above ground composter into the can. There weren’t as many earth worms [...]

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The better part of yesterday afternoon was spent getting my floor so sticky that you can’t stand in any one place very long for fear of being ‘stuck’ there for good. The end result was 5 pints of blackberry pancake syrup and 6 pints of blackberry jelly. I started out with about 15 cups of [...]

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I am guessing that 2005 will be known as the year of the great berry harvest here. So far… I have picked almost 36 lbs of blackberries from 6 vines and there could be another 3 lbs on there yet. The raspberries are up to about 3/4 lb every 24 hours and haven’t even really [...]

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