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Garden update

Wednesday, 1 July 2009 10:40 P GMT-05
It's been awhile since I blogged.  I went on vacation - a week at Lake Fremont with my family - and I had to work like a demon to get stuff done for AAR beforehand.  Then when I got home the message boards debuted in their new location,

2009 garden (#1) is in

Wednesday, 27 May 2009 12:00 A GMT-05
Well, after a month or more of double ditching (digging a ditch, piling the dirt to the side, adding layers of leaves and cow manure, then piling the dirt back in) a roughly 16 ft. by 12 ft. plot of land, I've got the garden almost all in. 

Spring garden

Wednesday, 15 April 2009 9:40 P GMT-05
What's in:  2 short rows of peas1 short row of Buttercrunch lettuce1 short row of Swiss chard(I will, perhaps, be adding rows of lettuce to spread this harvest out a bit.)1 long row of carrots1 long row of onions1 long row of potatoes(Check

2009 garden so far

Sunday, 5 April 2009 9:20 P GMT-05
This year I thought it would be interesting to keep track of input output of my garden(s).  I'm going to have two: the one I worked on together with my neighbor, Amber,  last year, and one I'm going to do with my father on his churc

2009 Seed Order

Sunday, 15 February 2009 2:52 P GMT-05
I have been spending the last few weeks reading books on gardening and preserving, purchasing a used dehydrator off of Craigslist and pricing upright freezers.  Oh, and trying to figure out what's going in my garden.First, I thought I'd

Putting the garden to bed

Thursday, 2 October 2008 8:58 P GMT-05
Here's a beginning/middle/end look at my neighbor's and my square foot garden.  It looked so cute and hopeful in May, so lush in July, but now it's brown and overgrown and pretty much done.  There are a few green tomatoes on the

Magic in the garden

Friday, 18 July 2008 9:00 P GMT-05
Is it just me or does a garden seem a little bit magic?You stick seeds in a hole in the ground, add water, and then - quick as a wink - you've got stuff you can eat.  LOTS of stuff you can eat.  I've been fighting the biological imp

Square foot gardening

Thursday, 29 May 2008 9:01 P GMT-05
My neighbor, Amber, and I have been planning to do a little gardening together for about a month now.  We've been waiting for the possibility of overnight frost to pass.   My block is part of a three-block triangle that has a bit o