Category: DBF Top 5 Grows 2021

DBF’s Top 5 Grows: #3 TOMATOES

We LOVE tomatoes. And our garden wouldn’t be OUR GARDEN if it didn’t have 2-3 entire beds (and our deck and various other locations) filled with their deep green, thick foliage and incredibly delicious fruits in a rainbow of colors. Tomatoes HAVE to be one of the most used veggies out there. It’s found in…

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DBF’s Top 5 Grows: #2 COLLARD GREENS

Man, do I love a hearty green. See, I grew up on foraged greens (and cultivated ones too, but it’s the rustic, ‘ground to table’ things that stick out the most to me from my youth.) Coming from a small town with very meager means, we were ALL about living off the land as much…

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DBF’s Top 5 grows: #1 GARLIC

This is the first entry in our ‘Top 5 Grows’ series in which we hope to share some of our favorite produce that gets the best Use, Storage, Preservation AND UtIlity from a small scale garden here in New England (zone 5). Number 1 on our list is GARLIC. Honestly, there is NO comparison between…

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