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Hops!

May 11th, 2009 No Comments

Saturday: Planted 4 Hop Rhizomes along the north fence of my back yard
Sundy: Found signs of rabbit digging in disturbed soil where I had planted two of the rhizomes.  It had dug straight down to one of the rhizomes, but not actually bothered it.  Perhaps it was going for the bits of clover and dandelion [...]

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Planters! From repurposed plastic bottles

May 9th, 2009 No Comments

With a shout out to Dancinglights, and Inside Urban Green for the idea, I have been hard at work making planters out of repurposed soda and gatorade bottles, and takeout containers.
I’ve been asked for pictures, so here they are, using a gatorade bottle as an example:

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Garden: Not a Total Loss

September 29th, 2008 No Comments

Some of you, my dear readers, may have wondered what ever happened to my garden.  The short answer is I stopped paying it much attention after the first week of July, when I started caring about the bar.
I had assumed it was a total loss.  When I moved to Massachusetts I showed the plot to [...]

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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

May 6th, 2008 No Comments

The garden is coming along quite nicely now.  I visited today, did some digging, and mulched around the brussels sprouts.  Three cubic feet of mulch didn’t go nearly as far as I thought they would, and I gestimate it would take about ten bags to mulch the whole garden.  Probably cheaper to plant chives, clover, [...]

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I can has garden!

April 27th, 2008 No Comments

Yesterday I took possession of a Cornell garden plot out at Plantations, just south of the Dyce bee labs.  I got some Brussels Sprout seedlings from Home Depot and put them straight in the ground, and staked out my plot with dead limbs from the forest that other gardeners have used in the past (I [...]

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