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Remember the potato towers I built earlier this spring? Well last night I decided to knock one over to see what was inside. Now this potato tower was a little different than the other potato towers I have growing, somehow I got distracted, and never got around to adding more dirt to this particular potato tower. So I knew the Read More >>
Right now the garden is in a holding pattern. Almost all of the tomatoes are green, and the squash are getting nice and fat. This time of year is the best part, but waiting for everything to ripen, is hard. Mostly because I know that when it does, it will be pandemonium trying to get Read More >>
Okay everyone, I need your help. It appears the slugs were out in full force last night munching away at my young broccoli starts. This is very bad news as we need the broccoli to grow so we can enjoy some stir fry dinners this fall. Normally I would just walk out to the garden Read More >>
OCD has it’s perks. I don’t know about you, but I like my vegetables to line up in pretty little rows. I mean, if I’m going to go to all the effort of planting a garden, it might as well look nice. Right? Am I wrong? Do only total garden crack heads like me do Read More >>
Photo Credit Okay, so maybe I am a total garden nerd, but every year around this time I start thinking about what I’m going to plant in NEXT YEARS garden. And because I am a super nerd, I like to get on the mailing list for my favorite seed companies so I’ll be the first Read More >>
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