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Pictures of produce from our garden

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:08:29 +0000

I love walking through our raised beds and finding new fruits and veggies to eat straight out of the garden. We have been enjoying strawberries since right around Memorial Day and now their season is winding down. My little berry thieves (both kids and critters) will be disappointed. Our raspberry crop has come early and [...]

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Pictures of produce from our garden

RaNdOm ThOuGhTs from the Garden

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:07:17 +0000

[note - I started this post last week and never got around to publishing it] On Wednesday, we had our first strawberry beginning to blush. On Thursday, we had ants crawling all over the sad remains of that same strawberry. Methinks the neighborhood squirrel has struck again. I had to put our cucumber plants out [...]

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RaNdOm ThOuGhTs from the Garden

Not another New Year post

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:41:56 +0000

As the title says – this is not another one of those blah-blah-blah year in review or here is what we did in 2009 posts. You see enough of that rubbish in the newspaper and other blogs. I don’t make resolutions so you won’t see a bullet-point list of those here either. Sure I have [...]

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Not another New Year post

It’s fall and I’m still harvesting veggies and fruit from the garden

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:43:54 +0000

Our everbearing raspberry canes are providing a pleasant early fall treat. We pick them by the handful every day and enjoy them immediately. As long as a really hard frost doesn’t hit any time soon we should be harvesting our tomatoes on into October. The same goes for our green and red peppers – that [...]

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It’s fall and I’m still harvesting veggies and fruit from the garden

My 2009 garden review

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:37:18 +0000

As the calendar rolls over to September and the morning greets me with brisk temperatures I glance at our garden with no small bit of disappointment. Either my garden let me down this year or I let my garden down. There are so many things that can go wrong in a garden – watering, temperature, [...]

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My 2009 garden review

Some lazy days in the garden

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:03:06 +0000

I love this time of the year in the garden. Everything is established, hardly any weeds to pull, and no seedlings to baby along. It’s time for watering and harvesting as the various fruits and veggies ripen. We’ve picked a couple of messes of green beans now. I don’t know what happened to my pole [...]

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Some lazy days in the garden

Enjoying our red raspberry patch this summer

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:54:46 +0000

[caption id="attachment_321" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Simply delicious red raspberries"][/caption] We've been enjoying a nice crop of red raspberries this summer from our raspberry patch. What started as just a few canes about four years ago has been steadily added to and we now have a nice 5' x 10' patch. It's nice to go out and pick our own raspberries to add to cereal, yogurt, tapioca pudding, and ice cream. This is the best year we have had as far as the amount we've been able to pick. It's interesting to see the newer everbearing variety that I purchased last year from Park Seed is thriving. So much so that it is going to become the dominant variety in our little patch in the next year or so. That's fine with me as it produces a nice crop of fruit twice a year - July and again in September. I believe the name of that particular variety is Caroline which produces more fruit than the other popular everbearing red raspberry - Heritage. For some reason, raspberry canes are not available this year from Park Seed - otherwise I'd throw a link in here to them. Growing your own raspberries is a fairly simple and fool-proof endeavor. Purchase quality canes, plant them as directed, mulch, water, and harvest. When the season is done simply prune back the canes that provided fruit this season. I've never had problems with disease and pests have only inflicted minimum damage to our crop.

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Enjoying our red raspberry patch this summer

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Square Foot Gardening Book

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:50:27 +0000

I've been using raised beds for gardening for six years now. I can't believe I waited this long to buy the All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew. His simple techniques and clear explanations are paving the way to my best raised bed garden results yet.

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Square Foot Gardening Book

Quick and Easy Garden Makeover

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:17:25 +0000

I love my raised bed garden. It’s functional and the different sizes and positions of the raised beds are pleasing to the eye. What I didn’t like about our garden area was the drab looking grass aisle that is the main walkway through the garden from the front gate into the backyard. When I built [...]

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Quick and Easy Garden Makeover

My 2009 garden map

Andrew — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:22:06 +0000

In order to avoid pests and diseases you need to rotate the plants in your garden. Don't make the mistake of thinking you will remember where you planted everything when next spring rolls around. The solution? Make a map detailing where everything is planted. You don't have to be an artist or worry about the scale of your drawing. As long as it makes sense to you, it will do.

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My 2009 garden map

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