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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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August 20, 2011

Egg Plant Love

I tried a new plant this year – egg plant. I really love it in curry and am adventurous enough to try it other ways as well. I got just one little plant from a local nursery and I am hoping it is a good plant so I can save seeds and see what comes […]

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August 19, 2011

Broccoli’s a Bust

Well, My broccoli plants are producing but to keep up with the needs of this family we would need a whole lot more than we have. The amount of space this plant takes up for how many florets you get is not very good. So, I will rely on my farmer’s market and our natural/organic […]

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August 17, 2011

Japanese Beetles Strike Again and Solution

The Japanese Beetles have struck again. This time they got my morning glories and my pepper plants! Of all the things to devastate, pepper plants??? I have about 6 bell pepper plants and about 4 jalapeno pepper plants that all stopped producing and started dieing. They didn’t even need to be destroyed. The beetles just […]

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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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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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