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April 11, 2013

COOKED – an Evening with Michael Pollan

Dinner and speaking by (Multi.) New York Times best selling author, Michael Pollan. MORE INFO Thursday, May 2, 2013 – 7:00 pm – Beth El Synagogue 5224 West 26th Street – Saint Louis Park, MN 55416 http://www.besyn.org/pollan A portion of the proceeds of this event will go to benefit Appetite for Change, a North Minneapolis […]

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March 22, 2013

Macy’s Flower Show 2013

Plans are forming at our house to visit the Macy’s Flower Show in Minneapolis this Sunday, March 24th. If you’d like to see pictures from years past please visit my page on facebook, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saras-Garden-Market/347778026634 While you’re there “like” it for valuable gardening tips and tricks. This year is all about container and unconventional gardening! To […]

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January 12, 2012

The Winter Harvest Handbook, Eliot Coleman – Book review

The Winter Harvest Handbook, Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses, by Eliot Coleman is a very detailed and exhaustive look at winter greenhouse gardening in zone 5. I am loving the look of the greenhouses on page 64, with snow piled up around the bases of a few large greenhouses! This book […]

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January 4, 2012

Winter Greenhouses!

I’ve been out of touch recently, but I’m back in 2012 with new inspiration! I have found a few great resources about winter gardening in Minnesota! Can you believe other people are as crazy as I am? 🙂 After my little plastic greenhouse got ripped apart by all the wind we’ve been having this Fall/Winter […]

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March 22, 2011

Indoor Garden Carrot Harvest

I have to make room to start my seeds indoors, so I have decided to harvest my carrots. These carrots were started on September 1st 2010! I can’t believe it’s been that long. That’s about 200 days. That is a very long time to not have full grown carrots at harvest time. These carrots got […]

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March 3, 2011

Indoor Garden Request by my Daughter Madison

My daughter Maddie suggested that we can use the indoor garden to propagate the strawberry patch!!!!!!!! What a genius idea! As you may or may not know strawberry plants only produce fruit the first or second year. They send out shoots (like a vine) and plant new plants them selves each season, and those are […]

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February 11, 2011

Spider Mites and Fruit Flies

So, I noticed a big difference when I used dirt from my garden to grow some of my indoor garden this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it wasn’t good. 🙁 I now highly recommend using only sterile, baged indoor potting soil for indoor gardens. Either that or you have to go through a process for preparing your soil to […]

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February 9, 2011

Non-GMO Cilantro and Basil Inside

I have gotten my seeds for the next growing season from St. Clare seeds. 🙂 They are a home-based non-GMO business and very friendly. I got double the amount of Basil and Cilantro so I can grow it inside. (And I think from now on herbs will go in the indoor garden only…it just takes […]

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February 9, 2011

New Seeds Ordered!

It is a home-based business that cultivate and harvest their own seeds to sell! It is non-GMO and they encourage seed saving. You can find a link to their site on the right side of my home page. The name is St. Clare Heirloom Seeds. The best part about ordering from their site was the amazing selection! […]

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