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Continue reading →: How Cold is Too Cold, Part 2
You have got to be kidding me! That is precisely the thought going through my mind as I look at the weather forecast for tonight. Seriously?!? 20 degrees?!? UGH! For those of you with fruit trees, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but at that temperature there…
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Continue reading →: Family of 4 Garden: Planting Onions
After the weather cleared up yesterday afternoon, I went out to plant the onions in the Family of 4 Garden. I decided to plant onion transplants, since I’d never done that before. (My family has always planted onion sets.) I bought a bunch of Red Candy Onions and a bunch…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
This scene probably seems like a bad memory by now, doesn’t it? As devastating as the weight of ice can be, I think the ice helped protect some of the tree buds from the cold temperatures. Newly planted tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant await the opportunity to get under the grow…
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Continue reading →: Eat the View
Here’s a fun video about a man who started a garden in front of his “white house” in order to lobby the President to put a garden in front of the White House. The organization behind it is Eat The View. Obviously this is a bit after-the-fact, since it was…
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Continue reading →: ‘Recession’ Gardens
CNN has this story today about people turning to gardening in the recession. I don’t know if they coined the term “recession garden,” or if they got it from someone else. I’m not sure I like that term, but I’m all for gardening regardless of the reason behind it! There…