By Chandra L. Mattingly Staff Reporter Which is better, to bite into an ear of sweet corn that went straight from the garden into the boiling water, or to slice and devour a sun-ripened red tomato? Ah, summertime, when the garden is in full swing and the eating is good. This week we're eating our…
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Of Bugs, Blooms & Vittles, Sow summer seeds soon for fall food
By Chandra L. Mattingly Is it too late to plant a garden? Not at all! While it might be harder to get cool-weather crops such as lettuce, spinach and beets to germinate, there are other vegetables that will pop right out of the ground and get to work. And even the cool-temperature crops may germinate…
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Of Bugs, Blooms & Vittles: How sweet it is
By Chandra L. Mattingly Beelieve it or not, the sweetest part of beekeeping for most backyard beekeepers isn't the honey harvest. It's seeing that their honeybees have survived another winter – especially when the winter was like this last one! But folks who are interested in beekeeping as well as beginning beekeepers can get a…
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Of Bugs, Blooms & Vittles: Bunches of berries, blessings of bees
By Chandra L. Mattingly Is anything better than a ripe strawberry, warm from the sun? Ours started ripening in bunches just before Memorial Day weekend and already my fingers bear red stains. Yum! This is one of the fruits we wouldn't have were honeybees and other pollinating insects wiped out. We're still getting asparagus, too, and…
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