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Category Archives: seeds & pods
Start eating!
The early spring vegetables are ready to eat! Cut and come again.
Posted in asian greens, microgreens, snap & snow peas, spinach
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What’s up and coming
Cucumbers are flowering and growing wildly up the trellis. Soon there will be many varieties of cucumbers to relish. Bush beans (here) and pole beans are flowering. Soon there will be many fillet beans to … Continue reading
Posted in cucumber, eggplant, green beans, seasonality
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First peas
The first peas are ready for harvesting.
Posted in snap & snow peas
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Peas for salad
This time of year, I often thin my pea sprouts and use the sprouts chopped in salad. The chopped sprouts add a nice pea-flavored freshness to a salad. And it serves the function of thinning out the peas for a more productive … Continue reading
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A hill of beans
What a great year for beans! Green beans, yellow beans, purple fillets, edaname. Sweet and tasty. This year, I harvested a huge crop of edaname, soybeans. Roasted and salted, they were tasty and nutritious for noshing. The trick to growing … Continue reading
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Talking peas
The New York Times ran a blog commentary Saturday If Peas Can Talk, Should We Eat Them? about new research showing that, when suffering drought conditions, peas send out a biochemical message through their roots to other plants about adverse growing … Continue reading
Posted in backyard microclimate, ecosystem, snap & snow peas
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Pre-sprouted peas
Pre-sprouting peas has proved profitable. Last weekend I planted the little sprouted peas and less than one week later I have surprisingly large plants. I’ve discovered some tricks to pre-sprouting peas which I’ll share here and I definitely recommend it … Continue reading
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Judging when to plant
Spring planting is always a gamble. Of course, we want to plant as early as possible so as to enjoy young lettuces, cabbage, spinach and peas as soon as possible. But the risk involves planting too early so that frost … Continue reading
Posted in backyard microclimate, cabbage, lettuce, planting, radish, seasonality, snap & snow peas, spinach
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Self-restraint and something better
My yearning to be outside and get dirty makes me impulsive: I can’t possibly plant peas this weekend as I’d hoped. It’s just too muddy, and the poor seeds would rot in the ground before they had a chance to … Continue reading
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