kbaichtal
Member since: Feb 10 | Last seen: May 13 | Organic gardener
Gardens
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Zone 4 In 2012 all plants that were not Daylilies or Dwarf Jacob’s Ladder were removed and given away on Craigslist. I had the Daylilies thinned an...
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Back Lotline Bed (North Half) garden
Zone 4 For 2013 this is the brassicas bed. Also, after the flower bed behind it stops blooming in early summer, I will put up some fencing to block the me...
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Back Lotline Bed (South Half) garden
Zone 4 For 2013 this bed will have chamomile, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, ground cherries, and sunflowers. The chamomile was pre-seeded this fall and t...
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Zone 4 There were woods here but it was mostly made up of invasive buckthorn and was also impinging on the alley. The city came and cut it down. So for th...
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Zone 4 This garden is two beds that divide the back lotline area from the main part of the back yard. There also is supposed to be some trellis work behin...
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Zone 4 I inherited this small front yard garden when I bought the house but there was nothing planted at the time except weeds. It is only 3-4 feet across...
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Zone 4 This “Garden” encompasses any free standing potted food plants that happen to be in the house instead of outside. Some of them go sit o...
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Hardening Off Rack Pre- garden
Zone 4 Hardening off has been an issue for me. Either I forget the plants are out there and leave them too long, or I take too long getting them in and o...
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Zone 4 This “garden” encompasses all of our non-food and non-flowers-being-started-for-outdoors houseplants. They are not all in the same plac...
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Zone 4 I am often putting celery hearts and vegetable-ends in water to root, and then moving them outdoors or to the light rack if they succeed.
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Zone 4 This is a rolling rack I built of scrap lumber, which has 3 shelves of fluorescent lighting and is wide enough to have 2 Jiffy trays full of lettuc...
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Zone 4 Since the neighbors’ huge Maple tree self destructed last summer there is more sun on the far side of the garage now. It’s on the nort...
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Not-yet-raised Bed (Long) garden
Zone 4 For 2013 this is going to have leeks, onions, shallots, etc. plus also peas in the spring.
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Not-yet-raised Bed (Short) garden
Zone 4 This is a rectangle that is in line with my raised beds but is not raised. For 2013 this will have mostly root crops, plus also climbing peas for ...
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Zone 4 For 2013 the deck will once again be lined around the edges with big blue tupperwares filled with dirt. There is now a new, permanent trellis where...
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Zone 4 After discovering that some local farmers I know had been growing Shiitakes on logs outdoors all year around on a “ignore them except when th...
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Zone 4 There are now so many rabbits around here we see 2-3 a day and they stalk me while I am working in the garden, sometimes sitting as close as five f...
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Zone 4 I started out with only a few severed raspberry shoots with roots, but they only took a couple or three years to fill the entire bed. I grow garli...
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Zone 4 This is heavily shaded in summer. I am in the process of trying to establish a perennial flower garden here.
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Zone 4 This is a long narrow garden that runs the length of the south side of the house and wraps around the back corner a few feet. I am trying hard to e...
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Zone 4 We do not have an orchard per se but we have many trees on our property so I wanted to keep information about them together here.
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