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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – April 29, 2016
It’s a rainy day in the demo garden. Or rather it was a rainy day, and is now a drenching, downpour day. Let’s just say that things are sufficiently watered for the foreseeable future. Of course, one of the benefits of raised beds is the improved drainage, so we will…
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Continue reading →: A Pallet Garden…It’s PinterestingIf you’ve been on Facebook or Pinterest at all in the past couple years, you’ve probably seen someone growing something in a pallet. The plants look lush and gorgeous, you can set it up vertically so it doesn’t take up much space, and it looks soooo easy! So we decided…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – April 15, 2016
It’s that time again, and since I haven’t updated much in the last couple weeks, I have a lot to show you. The lettuces are really looking great, while everything else except the perennial herbs are still just barely getting going. Here’s a closeup look at one of the quilt…
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Continue reading →: 2016 Garden Plans: Bed 6 – Root Vegetables
If Bed 5 (Flowers, Pollinators, Herbs) was pretty much a reprise of things we’ve grown before, then Bed 6 is almost the exact opposite. It features not only new varieties of common vegetables, but some things that we’ve never tried before. Let’s start with the more common things. In the…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – March 25, 2016
We had our first workday in the garden this week, and hence our first photo tour of the garden today. We worked hard, between the Compost crew and the Demo Garden crew. We added compost to our garden beds as fast as our Composters emptied the bins and screened the…