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Continue reading →: Birdhouse Gourd experiment
Around the seed racks at almost every store are the little jiffy cups for kids. There are watermelon, pumpkin, sunflowers and a few other kinds. I couldn’t resist and grabbed the Birdhouse Gourd one. Unfortunately the directions are basically non existent. Since the packaging was “so helpful”, I did a…
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Continue reading →: March 30/2014 Garden Update
Yesterday, my friend Cal and I drove into the city to go to a bunch of garden centers. A few were far more impressive than others, but in all of them we found some inspiration for an in-the-works project (that I will tell you more about when it is an…
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Continue reading →: Favorite Childhood Memories – Tomato Edition
You know the smell of tomato plants? Not the fruit… Just the plant. It is so ingrained in my brain as a happy memory that I can’t even begin to describe it in anything relatable to anyone but myself. You see, my mom doesn’t have a green thumb. I wouldn’t…
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Continue reading →: March 23/2014 Garden Update (Herbs and Flowers)Yesterday I updated you on the progress of all the edibles, saving today for Herbs and Flowers. We go through a lot of “Italian seasoning” around here because of the amount of spaghetti we end up having for dinner on work nights. It’s fast, easy and cheap. And the majority…
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Continue reading →: March 22/2014 Garden Update
It was feeling a lot like Spring around here. Gophers have started to wake up and are chirping away out in the fields. The Geese are making their pit stops here, en masse. The snowbank/drift in our back yard from the storms at the beginning of December was down to about…
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