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Category: Outdoor Garden Progression

Category: Outdoor Garden Progression

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September 15, 2011

Minnesota Under a Frost Warning

Parts of Minnesota are under a frost warning tonight. Here’s what you can do to protect your plants: Cover warm weather plants like tomatoes, peppers and squash with bed sheets. Water your garden early in the day. You want the plant to be dry when night comes, but you also want the ground to be […]

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September 7, 2011

Frost…

So, the time has come to discuss the issue of frost and how we (in the North) are going to extend this season and try to get our tomatoes to ripen on the vine!! Last year I tried to create a greenhouse with greenhouse plastic, PVC pipe and packing tape around my entire garden. It […]

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September 1, 2011

Back To The Cold Weather Veggies!

The only difference between gardening in the early Spring and gardening in the Fall are the mosquitoes!! So I cleaned out my raised beds and planted the cold weather vegetables again. The warmer vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, squashes will all need a frost blanket. But the salad greens like spinach, kale, and arugula will all […]

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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 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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May 19, 2011

Outdoor Bed Progress

You may have heard that we had our first harvest from the garden the other night! We did indeed! I planted radish, spinach, arugula and other salad greens and cabbage in one of the hoop houses at the beginning of March. Through many opening and closing of the hoop house plastic to maintain 55 degrees […]

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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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