Category Archives: food

Working in the garden

Our weather is so darn crazy here! My milk jug greenhouses have worked pretty well. I have kale and lettuce now in the ground and they’ve survived the week well. The tomatoes are still waiting in the milk jugs because I do not trust the weather to be nice enough to put them in the ground. [...]

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Community garden work

I added fencing to the fence posts the day after “N” installed the posts. My FIL had wires and a wire turner tool (I really don’t know what you call it) that worked real slick. I added two signs for the curious ball player or two. I also added mulch over the path I had [...]

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Community garden progress

I’ve taken my plot and straightened out its borders a bit. “N” of GAIN went to work with me last week and we measured 10′ x 13′ instead of the expected 10′ x 10.’ After some community discussion via email, some of us voiced concern about deer and other critters. The plots are near a [...]

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Growing kitchen scraps, part 2

Remember when I wrote about kitchen scraps for the garden? I planted the cabbage today. Take a look at the before and after: The cabbage took off with very little attention from me. I placed it in a pot of soil shortly after one week of being in a jar of water. As you can [...]

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