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Category: Outdoor Gardening

Category: Outdoor Gardening

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August 26, 2011

Cilantro Is For The Bees!

If you have a hard time getting things pollinated in your garden I highly recommend planting cilantro! First of all it’s super easy to grow, seeds go right into the dirt and keep moist until they are sprouted. Second, cilantro is very tasty in soups, salads, and salsa! Third and most wonderful, if you plant […]

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August 25, 2011

Eggplant Love Continued

So my sweet little tiny eggplant now has 4 blossoms on it!!!!! I cannot wait to eat those lovely little veggies. The zucchini next to it had 3 zucchinis get blossom-end rot, so I watered that section of my garden bed with a mixture of water and milk last night to help any new veggies […]

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August 24, 2011

Free Tomato Plants!

I have several tomato plants that I need to get rid of. I dug them out of my vegetable garden last night to create some space between my existing tomato plants. There is one pear tomato plant, the rest are standard tomato plants. They are ALL producing tomatoes (green still). They have been raised organic, […]

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August 24, 2011

Carrots + Raised Beds = LOVE

Everyone knows that carrots love sandy pliant soil. I have tried them for many years with good success in the germination and health of the plant factors, but not so good in the actual root being a nice long carrot factor. Carrots will turn and get knotty at the least resistance in the soil. You […]

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August 23, 2011

Hired a Gardener to help me WEED!

So after letting my vegetable garden get completely away from me I finally hired someone to come help me out. His name is John Beall (pronounced “bell”) and he did a wonderful job and was very fast as well. Very reasonably priced. We talked about gardening a bit and he had a lot of neat […]

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August 22, 2011

Tomato Supports

(I totally should have taken a picture – I might just sneak over to the neighbor’s and do it tomorrow.) A friend of mine has built himself some awesome tomato supports! He took lath or about 1 inch wide wood and made square cages. They are at least 7-8 feet high (with more to spare […]

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May 22, 2011

Veggie Garden Expansion!! (Phase 1)

Today I put the perimeter fence around my larger veggie garden! It doubled it in size. I still have the wrought iron black fence, and rabbit fencing inside. I was short about 5 feet of rabbit fence so I put up some extra lattice I had to block that corner. The rest was cake! I […]

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May 20, 2011

Strawberry Patch Maintenance

Hi everyone, As you know I have a very small strawberry patch. 🙂 Last year it kind of went a little crazy and sent out little shoot off plants all over the garden! (This is a good thing.) So this Spring when those new plants came up I dug them up very carefully and put […]

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Hoop Houses
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May 18, 2011

Hoop Houses – Mini Greenhouses

So, This year to extend my Spring 2011 season and help my fragile ego recover from my major FAIL at building a greenhouse last fall I decided to get some lumber and build mini garden bed greenhouses. This entailed me first constructing raised beds that were not off the ground, just allowed me to raise […]

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March 29, 2011

Four Season Gardening – Patti Moreno

Hey there, With Spring right around the corner I am anxious to get out in my garden! I saw a FABULOUS video today on Patti Moreno’s www.gardengirltv.com about growing in four seasons – She lives in the North East so I knew it might apply to us here in MN. Here’s the video: I am […]

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