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Continue reading →: Garden Plans for 2012: Mexican Garden
Another one of our theme gardens this year is the Mexican Garden. This garden is going to be a fun mix of more commonly recognized vegetables with some uncommon vegetables! We relied heavily on Rosalind Creasy’s book, The Edible Mexican Garden, for inspiration in planning our Mexican Garden. Starting from…
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Continue reading →: Garden Plans for 2012: Edible Flowers
We are planning to make good use of the variety of sizes of our new raised beds by trying some different things in a small area, rather than devoting half or all of one of our old beds to them. One of the new 4′ x 4′ raised beds will…
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Continue reading →: Good News & Bad News
The good news is that we’ve gotten drawings for all aspects of garden renovation! We’ve also accepted a bid for the drainage and dirt work portion of the project. Hurray! The bad news…the contractor won’t actually be able to do ANY work in the garden until it dries out. So…
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Continue reading →: Garden Plans for 2012: Beautiful Vegetables
We have all kinds of fun themes throughout the Demo Garden this year, and this garden is another one. The vision behind the “Beautiful Vegetables” Garden is to have plants that have strong ornamental value as well as being edible. In addition, the Master Gardeners doing the planning on this…
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Continue reading →: Garden Plans for 2012: New & Unique Vegetables
Despite the totally muddy state of disrepair that the garden is displaying right now and despite the lingering memories of last summer, we are forging ahead with our plans for the garden this year! One of the themed gardens we are planning for this year is New and Unique Vegetables.…