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• 15 Apr 2013

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  Bonny's Strawberries (3 per pot)

  Strawberry: 'Allstar' [Junebearing] Setting Fruit and Strawberry: 'Quinault' [Everbearing] Setting Fruit
  I purchased 2 strawberry pots yesterday from H.D. and they have 3 plants per and wondered if i should bust up the degradable pot & replant in separate pots?. I am hoping to raise these in a separate open to air greenhouse & close up during winter but protect from neighbors and pesky critt...
  Mostly Cloudy 17°C / 62°F
• 13 Apr 2013

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  Off We Go... Potatoes into the Dirt

  Solanum tuberosum - Potato 'Kerr's Pink Irish Heirloom' Planting Out and Vegetable & Fruit garden
  This is my first time to try potatoes and I am so excited yet kind of nervous. I have no idea if they will produce the way I am planning to grow them. I have read of many methods of container growing potatoes and I thought I would try that with not enough space to grow them elsewhere. I have had ...
  Partly Sunny 11°C / 52°F
• 13 Apr 2013

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  My Hugelkultur Container Experiment Part II

  After I completed the base, I put the bottomless basin on top and started filling it (Pic #1). Then I started a modified Hugelkultur/Lasagna container. To help seal the edges, I threw in some nastursiums that were spilling over into one of my paths, along with some weeds (Pic #2). Then I added mo...
  Mostly Cloudy 27°C / 81°F
• 07 Apr 2013

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  My Hugelkultur Container Experiment Part I

  I’ve been wanting to try Hugelkultur lately, but I didn’t have any new beds I wanted to make anytime soon. I did want to plant another Zucchini plant in a container & since I’ve had problems with over & under watering my zucchini in the past, I thought this might be a go...
  Mostly Cloudy 27°C / 81°F
• 06 Apr 2013

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  Indoor Strawberry Update

  The two 10" pots that we crammed the remaining 15 plants into are doing great and so are the window boxes. The interesting thing is the pot that we put green sand in is doing noticeably better then the one with worm castings. For now we have the two pots on the grow shelf. The window boxes a...
  19°C / 67°F

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