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Member since: May 10 | Last seen: Jun 13 | Years gardening: 5 | Organic gardener
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14 Jun 2013
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Sunny 25°C / 77°FWe had a saturday Father’s Day dinner for my dad, which included a timely fresh first (ever) harvest serving of my finaud beans. Also, we were able to offer some fresh salad from recently harvested Gigante D’Inverno Spinach and Anuenue Lettuce. We sent him home with some leftovers a...
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27 Apr 2013Backyard Vegetable garden
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Rainy 14°C / 57°FLast week I transplanted my seedlings at my friend’s house garden. Today I transplanted the remaining seedlings to my backyard garden. My seedlings were somewhat smaller than previous years, but I found the maintenance of starting earlier, more difficult. Perhaps, next season, I’ll...
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06 Apr 2013Friend's House garden
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Sunny 17°C / 63°FTo complement the newly created raised beds, my friend and I spent the weekend fortifying it with deer fencing. The project took all day saturday and a few hours on sunday for a total of roughly 12 hours labor for each of us. The fence was designed to span the entire length of my friend’s ...
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31 Mar 2013Backyard Vegetable garden
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Sunny 16°C / 60°FI spent a good amount of time this evening doing the dreaded potting up task. It’s one I’m improving on, but is still among my least favorite. However, I am pretty confident that I have all of my plants accurately transferred and labeled. Similar to last season, I am growing a large...
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29 Mar 2013Backyard Vegetable garden
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Sunny 16°C / 60°FMy family and I visited DeBaggio’s Herb Farm & Nursery on Saturday. This family run store is off one of the main roads in the area, but is tucked back away from things – if you’re not looking for it, you definitely wouldn’t find it. But I guess the fact that theyR...
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29 Mar 2013
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Backyard Garden Prepped for 2013
Sunny 16°C / 60°FWith all of the work put in at my friend’s garden, I had a little work left at my own garden. I did some basic tidy up in the front yard by raking the remaining leaves, then moved to the back yard and reseeded some empty spots in the lawn. To supplement some of what I lost in my own yard, I...
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23 Mar 2013Friend's House garden
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Light Snow 1°C / 34°FToday, my friend and I completed our project of adding the finishing touches to our square foot gardens. We put together our drip line and assembled some grids to overlay on our raised beds. The drip line is Irri-Gator brand and we used four rows of drip line per raised bed and then extended one...
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10 Mar 2013Friend's House garden
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Overcast 7°C / 45°FMy decision in 2012 to reduce my personal garden space has intersected with the good fortune of my friend, who recently purchased a house with a good sized plot in a non-HOA neighborhood. With new property and zero experience, he’s looking to slowly indoctrinate himself into homesteading. ...
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05 Nov 2012Marketmore Cucumbers , Kilarney Red Garlic , Lorz Italian Softneck Garlic , and Backyard Vegetable garden
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Scattered Clouds 6°C / 43°FI added plastic sheeting to my late sown cucumbers (August 12) a couple of weeks ago in order to protect the plant from increasing cold temperatures. As a precaution of Sandy, I added bungy cords around the sheeting to keep it from blowing away. After the storm had passed my wife took them off. ...
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25 Oct 2012
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My Results from the 2012 Pepper Trials
Backyard Vegetable gardenOvercast 19°C / 66°FOne of my biggest initiatives for the 2012 growing season was to conduct some pepper trials to see what grew the best in my area, and determine which hot and sweet peppers my family would enjoy eating the most. Of all of the intensive growing ideas I’ve tried, this was by far the most ambit...
