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I Should Have Planted Another One
I recently cleared some space in our backyard and have been planting strawberries. We’ve done this in batches and after the last batch I noticed that we had thirteen little strawberry plants. For a...
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Someone Liked Their Plums
The house we’re renting has a great backyard that’s full of different things to eat, such as asian pears and blackberries. There are also plums, but I hadn’t paid much attention to those since I’m not...
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This End Up
I recently read two more gardening books—The Backyard Homestead and Sow and Grow. Both had useful information about growing plants in your home or yard that you’d only figure out after a lot of trial...
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Late February Garden Update (Apologies To Those In Cold Places)
So our short, mild winter is almost over and the backyard has decided to start acting like it’s spring. The plum trees are covered in thousands of small white flowers (having those fall down when the...
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Corn, Pumpkins and Ladybugs
Garden update: tomatoes, corn, pumpkins and carrots have been planted in the ground and are starting to come up and I just picked up some ladybugs to help protect against little(r) bugs.
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Garden Update for June
Some of the corn is now taller than a 4 year old and baby ears have started growing. The pumpkin patch has gotten much bigger than it was a month ago and they look a lot like lilypads in a pond. The...
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Summer Harvest
We pulled some carrots up today and got a nice mix of red, orange and white. We also picked a bunch of plums and there is talk of plum cobbler (hopefully we’ll get to blackberry cobbler too since...
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Cool Webs, Annoyed Spiders and Broccoli
Hayden and I had a pleasant surprise today when we found out that when you play with a hose in a backyard full of spiders you get a lot of cool dew-dropy webs (and some presumably annoyed spiders). I...
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A Maize maze, a buttefly garden and an I don’t know what
Time for a garden update now that we’ve got some things planted. I’m giving corn another try, although I’m sure the varmints will get it again before it’s full grown. Even if we don’t get to eat it, we...
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