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my seed-starting lights & sowing timeline
Simpler is better for my gardening style.
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Amy Manning
2024 Tomato Report
My quest to find high yielding, BER resistant, excellent-flavored paste tomatoes went well.
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Amy Manning
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Addictive kale-garlic salad
I could eat this all year.
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Amy Manning
Variety Review: Black Kabouli Garbanzo Beans
Though tasty, I won't be growing these again. Here's why.
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Amy Manning
In Praise of Callaloo
Callaloo is a quick growing, high yielding, heat tolerant cooking green.
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Freezing Greens the Easier Way
I call this method the "steam-saute". It results in less nutrition loss and plastic waste than traditional methods.
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Amy Manning
Epic Caramelized Tomato Sauce For the Fridge or Freezer (EASY)
This sauce takes about an hour to make, largely unattended, using as little dishes/cleanup as possible.
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Mid-August Veg Garden Updates
Favas keep cranking out the beans, tomatoes are coming on strong, shiitakes gave me a surprise harvest, calalloo is cranking out the leaves, basil …
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Amy Manning
Mid July in the 2024 veg garden
Some success, some failures, so many learning opportunities
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Amy Manning
Mid-June veg garden updates
Peas Peas that I started in January indoors and set out a few weeks later are really pumping out the pods at this time.
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Do gardeners grow sweet potatoes in our region successfully?
Survey says: yes, with effort, sweet potatoes can be a successful crop.
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Favorite tomato varieties of Willamette Valley & SW Washington Gardeners
Highlights from my review of 170+ gardeners' reports
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Amy Manning
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