From the category archives:

Mustard Greens

Lava Homestead Update

December 5, 2009

 
I’ve thought of the succulents and snapdragons that are all over this acre as really nothing more than weeds. Why? Because I didn’t plant them, they sprout up unbidden, then grow without anyone’s help, and they aren’t something I can eat. But I realized just how much they add to my landscape when I caught [...]

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August 2009 Update

August 22, 2009

8-22-09 August Catch up

GARDEN CLUBBERS
(photo courtesy of Charles Tobias)
 
The July meeting of our Ocean View Garden Club was at my place. I told them I was definitely a work in progress and not a show place (yet)! They all wanted to see what was growing on my acre because they’d read my blog and seeing [...]

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Turnip and Mustard Greens

August 5, 2009

MUSTARD GREENS PATCH
 
My brother Hilton has talked about turnip greens in his blog, using a down-home recipe from our Cuz’n Don in Mississippi. Since I’m fixing a “mess o’ greens” today out of my garden, I thought you might enjoy reading a little blurb from our dad that I happened to find the other [...]

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Happy Father’s Day!

June 19, 2009

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AL JONES WITH UKELELE
 
Today, this post is to honor the memory of my own father who would have been 100 years old this July, and he died 40 years ago this fall at the young age of 60, an early recipient of open heart surgery.
He was an artist – see one [...]

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Good Old Greens

January 15, 2009

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MUSTARDS AND COLLARDS

Yes, I grew up on collards and mustard greens. My father was a Mississippi boy, and I attended college in Jackson, Mississippi. My brother, Hilton, wrote about our Cuzn Don’s “mess of greens” in his blog back in May, 2008. I think we all grew up knowing exactly how [...]

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Comfortable Beds for Veggies

July 3, 2008

Some plants seem to do well by moving the lava rocks, dumping in soil, and putting in a rooted cutting. For regular garden vegetables, however, this method doesn’t work.
The only way to have veggies is to build raised beds. There are many advantages to raised beds, and especially when you are dealing with a [...]

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