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Delicious Homemade Kale Chips Recipe You Can Grow Yourself
I love to make homemade kale chips from kale that I actually grow. Discover my secret recipe for delicious homemade kale chips made from fresh kale straight from my garden!
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My New Citrus Obsession: Cara Cara Oranges
I’ve shared in the past my interest in growing citrus, particularly unusual citrus varieties, at Heritage Cottage Urban Nano Farm, my urban farm in Ocean Springs. My latest obsession has been the Cara Cara orange I’ve recently found at the grocery stores. Called the pink orange, it’s variety of navel orange that has a very…
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Bourbon and Roses
Did you know that our favorite colorful garden roses have a common ancestor that was yellow? Well, here’s the rest of the story recently published last week from Beijing Forestry University, China, https://phys.org/news/2025-04-red-pink-white-roses-yellow.html . Speaking of colorful roses, a red one of mine that I grow also has roots to one of my favorite bourbons.…
Keep readingThe Moon, the Cross, and the Tomato: Understanding Good Friday Planting In the Deep South
Every spring about this time, I start getting the same question from gardeners all across the deep South: “Dr. B, is it true you’re supposed to plant your garden on Good Friday?” And I always smile, because that question is as Southern as sweet tea at a church picnic. Let me tell y’all something, like…
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Heritage Cottage Seeds
Since we were farmers market growers over 15 years ago, we’ve grown, no pun intended, to appreciate many of the varieties of vegetables that are not readily available for the home gardener. We would grow and bring these vegetables to the market for our local neighbors to enjoy. This interest in growing unusual peppers and…
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Growing Native Milkweeds
Almost every gardener I’ve met in the last 15 years seems to have questions about growing milkweed because of the Monarch butterfly. In the deep south perhaps the most common milkweed found in nurseries is the tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. Where I live on the MS Gulf coast these plants are perennial and pose the…
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A Garden Visit and Something New
A couple of weeks ago, while travelling to visit family and a little vacay, I had the opportunity to catch up with an old Clemson University classmate at his garden in Beech Island, SC. Jenks Farmer is an author, garden designer and a pretty darn good grower and authority on everything Crinum. Since it was…
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My 2023 Tomato Epiphany: Dwarf/Micro Tomatoes
After a tumultuous summer it’s time for me to get back to sharing my thoughts on what I’ve learned at the Urban Nano Farm. Probably the biggest surprise were the varieties of dwarf/micro tomato that I grew in 2023. I started trialing varieties in 2021, basically from a novelty perspective. Despite the name, these small…
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What Makes a Tomato a Heirloom?
One of the most popular and trendiest vegetables gardeners try to grow are heirloom tomatoes. This interest is fueled by the many articles written each spring and summer as well as the celebrity chefs insisting on using heirloom tomatoes in their recipes. I’d like to share some tidbits of information. Heirloom tomatoes are generally grown…
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What Kind of Magic is Tomato Dust?
Katie and I are serious about preserving the harvest we enjoy from the UNF. You name it and we preserve it. We like to call ourselves urban homesteaders prepping for the you know what. We heavily utilize canning, both water bath and pressure canning, and dehydrating. The advantage of this strategy is that the preserved…
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Gary Grows at Heritage Cottage 