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gardening faqs: prepping and planting
I’m continuing the gardening FAQs posts with some more gardening questions… What about raised beds? Are they better? Why or why not? There is tons of debate about this, but…
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gardening faqs: starts and soil
I have written some beginning gardening posts in the past (here, here, here, here, here, here for just a few), but I recently asked a friend if she would ask me…
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lazy garden bed
Happy March! In Indiana, it feels like spring is already here. The weather has been strange and has me more than a little paranoid. But regardless, real spring is right…
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tomato staking experiment
I need to talk to other gardeners, but by the sheer number of tomato starts that we have had donated to Project Eden this year, this has to be one of the…
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the stupidity of American lawns
If you don’t like rants, you may want to stop reading now… I spent all afternoon tearing out clover in our lawn, so that we could reseed grass seed in…
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planning your 2015 garden
Part of the problem with having a food/gardening blog around for nearly five years is that you start to forget what you’ve already posted about. This is especially true with…
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fun new seed varieties for 2015
I’m behind on our garden planning this year, but I did spend a few hours this week checking out some new (to me anyway) seed varieties for our 2015 gardens.…
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DIY trellis
We had plans this year to create a new trellis out of PVC pipe like this one. We bought the materials but just hadn’t gotten around to building it because…
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gardening tip: plant more peas
I went to pick up some donated plants for Project Eden a few weeks ago and, in the process, made a new friend. Elizabeth is a master gardener and was…
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garden progress
As has become our tradition, we spent Mother’s Day in the garden. Grant and I had prepped the beds a few days before – Grant dumping in compost and broadforking…
