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Yesterday I started to tackle my biggest garden project of the year, cleaning up last years pumpkin patch. It’s probably a little hard to tell from the photos, but this area is HUGE. So huge in fact that I’ve been putting this thing off for as long as possible. Here’s what the area looked liked Read More >>
I’ve been making some pretty good progress with my backyard garden over the past few weeks and thought I would share a few pictures of it’s current state. Last year we started off the growing season with {16} 4×8 garden beds. We are now down to 10. This seems much more manageable to me. We’ve Read More >>
How is your garden doing right now? Mine looks like it is kind of dead. Everywhere I look the plants have either turned to mush or are hanging on for dear life. It’s rather sad actually. The Swiss chard especially. Yesterday I spent a good hour and a half digging up the Swiss chard we Read More >>
Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 51 of 52 We had our first snowfall in nearly 2 years at our house on Friday and even though the snow didn’t stick around for long, I was able to snap a few pictures of our backyard garden while it was covered in a blanket of white. As Read More >>
Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 50 of 52 The last couple of weeks here in Western Washington have been a bit of a roller coaster. We woke up to nearly 2 weeks of temperatures below 30 degrees, with pretty much everything frozen solid in the garden. For awhile there I thought it was never Read More >>
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