One potato, two potatoes, sweet potatoes, MORE! I luv sweet taters (that’s how we say it in Tennessee). There’s nothing better than a big ole’ tater baked to perfection, topped with real butter, and perched on my plate awaiting consumption! Happy Hoer doesn’t have much experience growing sweet potatoes, but something went definitely right in [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2010
Sun, moon, stars
Sun Has anyone else noticed that the angle of the sun is really changing? After several days of cloud cover the sun came out bright and cheery yesterday afternoon, but the angle is definitely changing. The shadows around the gardens are getting longer, and fall is my very favorite time of year so this is exciting to [...]
The many faces of weeding
I’m not exactly sure how much of a gardener’s time is spent weeding, but I think it’s a large percentage of the time spent in the garden. This year, in the veggie gardens, I used leaves as mulch and it is working wonders! Sure, there are places where the crabgrass is attempting to take over [...]