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My backyard garden will not be as busy this summer

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In the good old days, you would plant in a field for several years and then you would not plant in that field for at least one growing season to let the ground recover. That’s one of the reasons why I am not going to plant much if anything in our backyard garden this year….

Cucumbers, tomatoes, herbs and maybe sweet potatoes

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Here’s a backyard garden update. First, the cucumber patch went crazy this year. We had a ton of cucumbers and Susan canned several jars of sweet and dill pickles. We had so many cucumbers that we had a hard time giving them to friends and neighbors. It was a wet summer and cucumbers thrive when…