Problem: do not have a watering can with holes small enough to water seedlings, without washing them away; Problem: misters do not deliver enough water with the frequency that I can get round to using them; SOLUTION: create a seedling waterer Materials: ==>Small, mabe pint-size, take-out tub. Preferably one of those ones that you never [...]
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Seedling Waterer!
March 16th, 2011 No Comments
Tags: garden · locavoracious · seedling tech · things that are shiny
Radish!
May 5th, 2010 No Comments
Tonight: first produce of the season: a ‘French breakfast’ radish! The ones in the back garden have been attacked by slugs; this specimin was container-grown.
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Spring Gardening 2010
March 17th, 2010 No Comments
A few notes: 1) I had a conversation with my landlady yesterday about how we might not have any more conflict about the garden. We agreed that I can plant anywhere that I want to, so long as a) I put a border around my garden, and b) I do not use the fence as [...]
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Planters! From repurposed plastic bottles
May 9th, 2009 2 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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New Fermentings
January 4th, 2009 No Comments
Kombucha The cranberry kombucha is all gone. It was lovely, but it tasted so unlike tea that I tended to foget there was caffeine in it. I think next time I will not use black tea for this. Meanwhile, I have a new 3-quart batch of rose hips kombucha that’s looking close to ready! Below [...]
Tags: bread · kombucha · kraut · locavoracious · process oriented · recipe · Refusa the goddess of food recycling · sourdough · symbiosis · vegan · vegetarian · weinkraut
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 [...]
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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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Pollan's Letter to Whole Foods
April 2nd, 2008 No Comments
Michael Pollan has posted a letter to whole foods at his blog, responding to the whole foods CEO’s criticism of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I’ll give you the punch line here, but you really ought to read the whole letter–explaining Pollan’s conclusion: After spending time with you and reading your letter, I’ve wondered if perhaps I [...]
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