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21 Mar 2009
Greenhouse Framing Started 9 7 Very Happy
Dave is progressing with the greenhouse construction. Since it will be a temporary structure, he’s building it from scratched out in front of the garage where he has meticulously planned and fine-tuned the structure. He has the main framing done and he has loosely placed and positioned the ...
Sunny 1°C / 33°F
04 Oct 2009
The End of the Season 6 7 Happy Tomato 'Orange Strawberry' Harvesting, Pepper, Hot 'Guajillo' Transplanted, Pepper, Hot 'Chili de Arbol' Tr...
Well, I don’t know about you guys, but for all intents and purposes, the season is over for me. We’ve been having some light patchy frost, and the plants are looking pretty worse for ware because of it. The first frost was about 4 days ago, and knowing it was coming, I harvested the ...
Overcast 7°C / 45°F
10 Apr 2009
Toilet Paper Roll Pots 38 26
I’ve been saving our toilet paper rolls to reuse as decompostable pots. I created two sizes: a full roll and a half roll. I just cut some slits on the bottom and folded the flaps over to form the bottoms. Surprisingly, eight will fix nicely into a reused tofu container. I can even place twe...
7°C / 44°F

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01 Feb 2010
I chewed coir 12 12 The Worm Factory and Worm Poo garden
I think I’ve reached the apogee of worm bin management — I chewed coir. See, a while ago, I posted a question about rinsing coir. I purchased pet store coir instead of horticultural coir because it is cheaper, but it also carries some risks. Horticultural coir is rinsed more thoroug...
Sunny -3°C / 26°F
29 Jan 2010
Seed inventory and order 10 12 Wagon Wheel garden and Serpentine garden
Packets in stash Eventually I’ll add these notes to the stash as well Indoor Start: • Saved oregon sugar pods: lots of seeds, start indoors to confirm viability; great taste, small yields • Small sugar pumpkin, saved, start indoors to check viability • Nasturtium, Ferry Morse bush, plus GR...
Overcast -15°C / 5°F
05 Feb 2010
Wall of Green 11 11 Very Happy AeroGarden #1 garden , AeroGarden #2 garden , AeroGarden #3 garden , Tomato 'Stupice' Setting Fruit, and To...
The Aero Garden Wall shelf arrived yesterday and DH set it up when he got home from work last night. It took longer than it should have because we lost one of the screws somehow and had to spent a fair bit of time looking for it and then a replacement. Other than our own little blunder (and findi...
Cloudy -3°C / 27°F
02 Feb 2010
Recap on 2009: What went right, what went wrong. Things to fix. 10 9 All the garden
I’m not really one for New Years Resolutions (and it’s too late) but I am one for learning from mistakes. So what can I do better next year? Planning: For all the benefits that MyFolia offers, I’ve still (yet) to incorporate them into my garden fully. The tasks are half done &...
Overcast 32°C / 90°F
07 Feb 2010
Spring is here.... holy crap. 9 7 Very Happy Iris Breaking Dormancy, Columbine 'Long Spurred Mixed' Breaking Dormancy, Globe Thistle Breaking Dormancy, ...
Spring time generally comes for us, properly, around the end of March/beginning of April and then will finally warm up enough to plant out around the end of April. That’s usually. Usually, right now we’d have -10C temperatures and at least a good two feet of snow. In actuality, right ...
Clear 3°C / 37°F
07 Feb 2010
The velveteen gardener 9 7 Ideas garden , Leeks Sprouting, Iris- under apple tree Sprouting, and Iris- Narnia Sprouting
What makes a gardener “real?” It’s a complex activity, and easy to out-source at many steps, from design, to installation, to seed starting, to care, to harvest. Garden walks and competitions often disqualify anyone who has had a professional to plan and/or install a garden, exc...
Overcast -4°C / 25°F
07 Feb 2010
Lemon Tree: Rescuing the unwanted. 7 9 Very Happy Central East garden
They are expanding the car park, into regions never used before, and in the process trees are being removed (they were residential house blocks). A sad and sorry lemon tree was gasping its last against the back fence but a quick word to the supervisor, who agreed and passed the message along to t...
Sunny 32°C / 90°F
03 Feb 2010
Looking for colour 8 6
Signs of Spring all along the street, the willow branches are brilliant yellow, there are green buds on the lilacs and stems of red Dogwood in F’s hedge, and the birch trees are covered with catkins. The most brilliant colours and most obvious livliness is in the mosses and lichens that coa...
Cloudy 2°C / 36°F
02 Feb 2010
History of our plot... and a little about Scout and Sparky. 6 8 Neutral 2010 Community garden
I went and looked at the plot this past weekend when husband and stopped by the community garden to assemble the new Mantis 20-bushel Dual Tumbler Composter. (Which kicks ass, by the way. Get one!) I guess I shouldn’t have been looking at back issues of Mother Earth News before heading over...
Cloudy -1°C / 30°F
06 Feb 2010
Rip, Rip, Rip 1 11 Very Unhappy Business in Front garden
After months of negotiation with a buyer, they backed out. House still hasn’t sold. And I am still being outvoted by my co-owners regarding the yard. I just found out a bunch of things I planted out front are going to be ripped up. I feel pretty helpless which is why I’ve tried so har...
Cloudy 13°C / 56°F