Monthly Archives: November 2015

Harvest Monday, November 23, 2015 – Overwintering Swiss Chard + Harvest

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Norma Chang

Decided to harvest all but the 2-3 center leaves from each of the 10 spring planted Peppermint Swiss Chard and leave the leggy plants in the ground to hopefully survive in the garden over the winter. This will most likely … Continue reading →

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Harvest Monday, November 16, 2015 – Growing Sweet Potatoes In Container Update

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Norma Chang

Throughout the year I had made quite a few promises to post updates about my many garden ventures/experiments. Today’s post is  keeping one of the promises. Some of you may remember the photo below (the purple sweet potato slip I … Continue reading →

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Harvest Monday, November 9, 2015 – Container Snow Peas + Herbs + Overwintering Experiment

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Norma Chang

Last week was a wonderfully gorgeous and delightful summer-like week, in the 70’s. Cooled down a bit over the weekend and woke up to a frosty 29°F this morning but not complaining. Took advantage and got quite a lot of … Continue reading →

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Harvest Monday, November 2, 2015 – Garden Survivors + Volunteers

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Norma Chang

Amazing how hardy many crops are, below are photos of survivors (of the many frosts and hard freeze for the past weeks) in my garden. Radicchio Hoping the above radicchio will form solid heads. The ones planted in May were … Continue reading →

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