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How to Peel and Seed Fresh Tomatoes

August 20, 2009

I love my garden, I really do. And I think the fresh tomatoes were quite possibly the best thing about it. But late in the season, due to some insects eating the leaves and the blazing summer sun, I got some really ugly tomatoes. These were not the picture perfect ones seen in previous posts, but [...]

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Quick Mid-Summer Garden Update

August 5, 2009
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This is 2 day’s haul from the garden last week. In the photo are 4 different types of tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, an eggplant, a zucchini, and a cucumber. Was the no-dig method successful? Yes, I think so. Did it work for everything I planted? No, but I learned in the process and will be better prepared for [...]

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Garden Update; The World's Most Expensive Tomato

June 7, 2009

Yesterday we ate the World’s Most Expensive Tomato.
Ok, not really, but sometimes gardening feels that way, doesn’t it? When you factor in what was spent on building the raised beds, filling them with hay, alfalfa, manure and compost, buying the plants, building the fences, buying critter repellent, water, and time,  it seems like it would just [...]

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Garden update; the Octopus in my Garden

May 16, 2009

 
Today we finished the irrigation project. Every plant now has an ugly black rubber tube leading to a low-flow drip irrigation end. It will save water and keep me from having to lug the hose from plant to plant. But the manifolds (1 for each bed) looks like an octopus, albeit a 12 legged one, [...]

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Garden Update; Still Battling the Monsters

May 4, 2009

We are still fighting the good fight against the raccoons.
They tear down my fence, I repair it.
I sprinkle pepper everywhere, they use it to season the onions they steal from my garden.
I buy “Critter-Repellent” which contains the urine of larger predators, they reply by leaving poop in my garden pathways.
Actually, to be fair, it seemed [...]

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The Ongoing Saga of the Monsters in My Garden

April 18, 2009

 
I have finally figured out what the “Little Monsters” are in my garden.
Raccoons.
The clue was the single footprint on the side wall of one of my raised beds.
Well, the footprint, holes dug into the garden 8″ deep, and plant seedlings tossed about with wild abandon were all clues.
Black pepper and Cayenne sprinkled on the ground [...]

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Jiffy Pop Greenhouse, Part 2

April 8, 2009

In five days, my seedlings have gone from this…

to this…

Pretty amazing, huh? It’s like my own science project. I love the fact that the beet sprouts are so red and I’m stunned at how fast the Blue Lake Green Beans have grown.
I’d like to plant them, but unfortunately, the nocturnal creatures are still out in [...]

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Jiffy Pop Greenhouse

April 1, 2009

This past weekend I planted some seeds. I wanted to give them a fighting chance against the Little Monsters in my garden so I decided to start them in a tray instead of in the ground.

 
At Home Depot when looking at the seeds I found this nifty Jiffy Greenhouse. Just add water and POOF!, the [...]

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