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Carrots Over Wintered

SO! Last fall because of an early frost and my frustration with losing just about everything in my wonderful outdoor garden I completely forgot about my carrots!! I never harvested them and they are still alive out there!!! And, THEY LOOK GREAT! I am curious to see how they taste but they look awesome. I […]

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Greenhouse Plans

So after a fun talk with one of my good friends I have a new plan for the “greenhouse.” My vegetable garden is up against my garage and has a Victorian fence around it.  So my new plan is to put up plastic awning and curtains that can be rolled back, or rolled down! Picture […]

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Weekend Yard and Garden Work

I got the majority of my outdoor weeding done yesterday! The vegetable garden was full of thistles and other odd looking plants I didn’t want in there. I also found a whole patch of volunteer tomatoes! They will need thinning so now I have a serious amount of tomato plants! The two strawberry plants are […]

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April 5, 2010

Lighting change

So, I have discovered that tomatoes need a lot of light. Mature plants need more light especially if they are going to flower/fruit soon. So I am increasing the light on my mature plants to 18-20 hours per day. That should get them to flower/fruit. 🙂 The seeds and seedlings that I have started for […]

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April 2, 2010

Outdoor Garden Started! (outdoor part)

I planted my onions, radishes and peas today! A ton of large yellow onions, snow peas and dwarf peas, and cherry globe radishes! I planted a ton of radishes because once they are done I will clean out that part of the garden to plant other things in, so I use more than I normally […]

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March 30, 2010

Outdoor Seeds Started!!!

I finally got my outdoor seeds started! I live in Minnesota so my first day of safe frost-free planting is May 20th this year according to my handy Farmer’s Almanac. There are seeds that you can start outside before that, but not many. I like to transplant plants to the garden for a lot of […]

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