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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 10, 2011

Order Your Farmer’s Almanac!

Hi everyone, Be sure to order your 2011 farmer’s almanac. It has valuable and surprisingly accurate information and long-range weather forecasts. Plus really cute and helpful articles (several!) through the entire book. One note: I ordered the one pictured above from Amazon thinking it was like one I had gotten several years ago, but the […]

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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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February 9, 2011

A Great Book

I have a new favorite book! I think I have mentioned it before but it deserves another mention. Month-By-Month Gardening in Minnesota!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By, Melinda Myers. ISBN-13: 978-1-59186-253-6 ISBN-10:1-59186-253-1 Suggested Retail is $24.99 and worth a LOT more than that! Here are just a few of my favorite features: It covers every type of plant, veggie […]

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February 6, 2011

Indoor Gardening Winter 2010-2011

Hello fellow gardeners! I haven’t been around in a bit, but I am ready to dig back in and get started! For this first (gardening) post back I will show you my indoor garden that is thriving this year! Here’s a picture: In the top left you can see the carrots. Some of them are […]

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February 2, 2011

I’m Back!

This post is pretty much completely unrelated to gardening, but it is what I have been doing over this long and snowy winter here in MN! I found this cool website in September called FLY Lady, http://wwwflylady.com It’s a site that walks you by the hand through getting rid of clutter and leaves you with […]

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October 26, 2010

Yellow Onion Fiasco Continues…

So, I thought the yellow onions were dead, done, gone. I was lazy about getting them out of the garden just because I didn’t have anything to go in anyway so why bother. Well, our weather dried out and I went out to check the onions after about 2 weeks and they had new shoots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! […]

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October 26, 2010

Greenhouse Up and, now, Down

So, my Mom kept pestering me to post pictures of the greenhouse I had put around my vegetable garden. And now it’s down due to high winds we are having here. 🙁 I don’t think I got any pictures of it at all. The Weather: We are having a 2 day wind storm (rain too, […]

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September 4, 2010

Fall Plans

Hi everyone, The fall plans are in effect! First order of business is building PVC pipe supports for the plastic sheeting that will become the temporary greenhouse I will be using to extend my seasons! The over night low yesterday was 45 degrees Fahrenheit so I better get this thing up. Last year we had […]

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