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Month: November 2009

In the cold garden

23 Aug 201124 Nov 2009 by Mike (tfb)

The star by far of the last planting of brassicas, that mostly didn’t size up in time for market or CSA, is without at doubt this unusual Nero Di Toscana strap kale. This Italian heirloom, apparently from Tuscany, is hardly … Read the rest

Categories Veggies Tags unusual, fall crops, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, brassicas, heirloom, Autumn 5 Comments

Tiny fall cauliflower tastes good

24 Nov 200923 Nov 2009 by Mike (tfb)

Harvested a few tiny (tennis ball to softball-sized, like, orange to grapefruit…little ones!) cauliflower from the last-planted section of brassicas that also has kale and broccoli. It’s still producing in home-consumption quantities, but with the exception of some strap kale, … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Veggies, Fieldwork, Harvest Tags risk, brassicas, fall crops, cauliflower, Autumn 8 Comments

Spinach finale

19 Apr 202216 Nov 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Last spinach harvest of the year

So this is it for the season’s spinach, a last 18lbs (8kg) of Spargo, unfazed by many subzero nights and all sorts of up-and-down weather antics. Spinach is one of the great ones for cold-climate tiny farming, easy-going once it … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Fieldwork, Harvest Tags spinach, deer, Autumn 14 Comments

First snow, 2009

5 Nov 20095 Nov 2009 by Mike (tfb)

Here it is, in the dim, chilly, gray 7:30 am light: the first snow to stick this fall. Familiar—we really do have such a short growing season, time flies—and of course not welcome, because there’s still fieldwork to do. And … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Weather Tags snow, Autumn 13 Comments

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