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Hazelhedge Hazelhedge is a two-acre diversified operation that produces fruits, vegetables, nuts, flowers, and fresh chicken eggs. We offer seasonal roadside sales.

Hot-mess garden tip (boy do I have a lot of these): if you accidentally let a few cucumbers overgrow to zucchini/basebal...
07/28/2026

Hot-mess garden tip (boy do I have a lot of these): if you accidentally let a few cucumbers overgrow to zucchini/baseball bat size, do not despair or toss them to the chickens; refrigerator pickle. The strong flavor (here I used garlic, bay leaf, peppercorn, mustard seed) hides the bitterness, and the pickling softens the toughness. Not all wrongs are so easily righted, so enjoy this small act of garden salvation.

I interrupt your brooding and/or bombastic feed filled with patriotic whatever whatever with an important announcement: ...
07/04/2026

I interrupt your brooding and/or bombastic feed filled with patriotic whatever whatever with an important announcement: I accidentally bred a weird squash! Zuchash? Squashini?

This plant unexpectedly popped up in May in an okay open spot in a veg bed, so I let it be. I thought the first fruit was just discolored, but swipe to see all the identical babies. It must be a cross-pollinated descendent of the Yellow Crookneck squash and Black Beauty zucchini I planted last year. It's got mild flavor and major flair, and I just might save a seed from it on purpose this year.

A perfect hot day to harvest garlic. The long, strange spring really agreed with this specific crop. I couldn't believ...
07/03/2026

A perfect hot day to harvest garlic. The long, strange spring really agreed with this specific crop. I couldn't believe the palm-sized, well-formed heads I was unearthing over and over again; the best heads from last year would have looked ho-hum this year. A reminder that we rarely know what is going on below the surface, and it's not the worst idea to default to optimism.

Pizza box potato patch. Pizza boxes held down by wood chips make good walking paths in a garden you only do occasional ...
05/26/2026

Pizza box potato patch. Pizza boxes held down by wood chips make good walking paths in a garden you only do occasional light maintenance on (and maybe don't have to look at too often, either). I hilled these potatoes on the back side of the barn with compost today, will tuck a thick layer of straw around each plant tomorrow, and that'll probably be the last time I visit this patch for a while. Potatoes don't mind a little benign neglect once they've been given a good start. Which I'm hoping is a viable parenting strategy, too.

The smallest native tree and shrub sticks (pic 1) can grow into stars of the landscape, but they need fairly long-term p...
04/30/2026

The smallest native tree and shrub sticks (pic 1) can grow into stars of the landscape, but they need fairly long-term protection from bunny and deer damage. We use hardware cloth collars when they're tiny (pic 2) and green wire mesh as they grow, even for teenager trees (pic 3). The protection costs more than the tree. But there's not much more satisfying than sitting in the deep shade of one of these former tiny sticks (pic 4, yellow birch).

The Allium genus really rewards your attention. Weeds can be over-running every other veg bed in my garden, and I'll be...
04/23/2026

The Allium genus really rewards your attention. Weeds can be over-running every other veg bed in my garden, and I'll be leaning over the garlic beds picking out the tiniest emerging bit of green.

A gardener friend and I are holding a friendly onion growing competition this year, and he said he plants his about a fist apart, and I replied that I did too. Then we laughed because we held up our fists and his was a solid two inches wider than mine. So I'm not sure who is right, and don't take my garden advice if you're counting on a more precise measurement than "just about a fist...ish."

But if you're planting onions this weekend, and it's a very fine time to do it, the last photo is your tip to take all the tiny scruffy worst ones, the ones you didn't see fit to plant in a premium bed, and cram them into a container, caring not at all about spacing. They'll reward you with tender green onions to cut and come again for all the early summer months, and you'll be so pleased to have gotten something out of next to nothing.

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