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Continue reading →: The First Time Gardener: Selecting Vegetable Varieties
Choosing what to plant every year is an exciting (if somewhat frustrating) process. Ever since I was a child, I remember being excited when the new seed catalogs would start to arrive. I would flop down on the floor or the couch and scour them for what I thought we…
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Continue reading →: Seeds in the Ground
I had been hoping to get outside this morning and plant a second round of lettuces, radishes, etc with the Demo Garden crew. We also have some onion sets that need to get planted and some beets, carrots, and Swiss Chard that could be planted any time in the next…
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Continue reading →: Storm Stories!
Yesterday I shared some pictures with you about how the storm affected things in the Demonstration Garden. Let’s hear from you! What did you see in your yard or neighborhood? Did you lose anything in the garden? Did the storm set back your garden plans? For those of you with…
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Continue reading →: Before and After
Here are some pictures from the Demo Garden on Saturday afternoon, and then a comparable picture from this afternoon. One of the blackberry plants coated in ice. This closeup of the blackberry foliage from this afternoon shows the damage. The plant will lose these leaves and then put on new…
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Continue reading →: In Retrospect…
I don’t think I would have done much different to prepare the demonstration garden for the weather over the past weekend. (I do wish I’d known we were going to get so much ice. It was also frustrating to watch the overnight low temperatures get constantly downgraded. The lows didn’t…
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