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Month: August 2020

The Great Tomato Race!

The Great Tomato Race!

Rain or shine, our gardens are now heading into the home stretch with tomatoes leading the way!  Tomatoes are actually sub-tropical plants and don’t know that winter is coming so they are still growing and producing as though they have many months ahead.  We know better and there are several things we can do right now to get the most out of what’s left of this year’s growing season for tomatoes and our other gardening investments.  Despite the calendar and…

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August Abundance is Here!

August Abundance is Here!

It’s a great feeling to see your garden in full maturity and producing as much or more than you hoped for.  That’s the reward that a hard-working gardener deserves and should enjoy this time of year.  Harvesting is vital to good production, the more you pick the more you get!  Leaving fruits on plants to get over-ripe signals the plants to slow or stop production.  Of course, overabundance can become a burden too, unless we have some good ways to…

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