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If I could teach you one tool and only one tool to maximize your garden’s harvest, it would be succession planting! Technically succession planting is putting in a new bed of the same vegetable at intervals throughout the growing season. Basically it’s continuous planting or staggered plantings so that you get a constant harvest of Read More >>
After I wrote the title for this post, I wondered, do people even know what 411 stands for anymore? Should I have called it the Google on Succession Planting? Man, technology makes me feel old sometimes. Anyway, moving on. Succession planting–do you do it? If you don’t, you totally should. It gives you a continuous Read More >>
Holy canolies people, it has been a busy last few days around here. The weather has been BEAUTIFUL and I’m having a hard time doing anything else besides gardening. Yesterday I worked on tidying up the pots on the back porch. After weeding my shady vegetable plot, I transplanted the lettuce growing in pots alongside Read More >>
The weather here in the Pacific Northwest has been crazy good lately, especially for the month of February. So good in fact I had Monkey Boy mow the lawn yesterday. True, a lot of the lawn is currently covered with moss, 😉 but still, having it cut short and all the same length made my little Read More >>
This week was pretty stinkin’ productive. In fact, gardening wise, I think I got more accomplished this past week than any other since we’ve moved to the new house. For starters, I finished pulling up all the English Ivy that was in the side yard. I actually LOVE ivy, but the people who lived here Read More >>
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