An update to Paydirt: Sunchokes.

Yet another step made to prepare our backyard for our move from Aberdeen, Maryland to Fairbanks, Alaska.  This past weekend our goal was to dig up as many Jerusalem Sunchokes as possible and since the weather was dry and sunny we figured it was time.  First a bit of history, after all, you know if you’ve kept up with me in the past I love reading the histories of each

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Paydirt

Yet another step made to prepare our backyard for our move from Aberdeen, Maryland to Fairbanks, Alaska.  This past weekend our goal was to dig up as many Jerusalem Sunchokes as possible and since the weather was dry and sunny we figured it was time. First a bit of history, after all, you know if you’ve kept up with me in the past I love reading the histories of each

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A living wall

So this is what happens when you just throw your hands up on your garden and say “do whatever you want!”.  You get squash plants gone wild. On the right side we now know for certain we have a Long Island Cheese Pumpkin, on the left I’m pretty certain we have a Galeux D’eysines and on the bottom (you can barely tell) is an acorn squash which was a complete

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