Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
29 March 2016

Permaculture - inspired landscape design: dirt

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Today things finally had thawed enough to get the skidsteer going.  The giant windrow of composted barnyard stuff is somewhat mixed... There...
21 February 2016

Sprouting!

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I have been saving the seeds from all the apples and pears I've been enjoying from our Organic Box and keeping them in a damp container ...
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22 December 2015

Epic Crash... But yay Solstice!

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Yesterday I crashed... In a truly epic fashion. I won't even describe it, but... Ugh. Awful.  Let's not do that again.  But today? T...
09 May 2015

More Yard Updates: trees!

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I transplanted a bunch of little pine trees from the back where they were clustered too close together to grow up well anyway (I found a...
28 February 2014

Windowfarm 3.0

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I’ve made several attempts at growing plants in my window. Without a pump, the original version didn’t work very well . With small gutter...
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13 March 2013

Windowfarm, Version 2.0

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We've upgraded to Version 3.0... find out more  here ! So, remember the Windowfarm I started last year? Well, it had some issues. Ke...
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17 April 2012

A garden out of dead trees

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Today I started an outside project: a garden out of dead trees, my son called it (to which The Reluctant Farmer said, “Well, that kind at le...
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17 January 2012

Grow garlic on your windowsill without dirt

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We've upgraded to Version 3.0... find out more  here ! When I set up my hydroponic WindowFarm , I bought a great big bag of something c...
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05 January 2012

Windowfarms: grow food all year

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We've upgraded to Version 3.0... find out more here ! There are some really cool ideas for growing food indoors at the Windowfarms we...
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30 August 2011

Adaptation

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The season is beginning to turn towards fall: the evenings are cooler, the hay is being baled in the fields, and the geese occasionally appe...
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18 July 2011

My garden is a sermon

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As I work in the garden, I am repeatedly struck by the thought that there is a sermon somewhere in the dirt and weeds and vegetables. 17 ...
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14 May 2011

Quack grass is not a weed…

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… it is a force of nature, in the same category as rivers and wind. It will grow through anything – clay, soil, landscape fabric, your carro...
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06 September 2010

Woad: blue stuff from green stuff

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This year, I grew some woad in the garden (seeds from Richters , of course). Translation for non-fibre artists, and those unfamiliar wi...
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25 July 2010

Working in the Garden with God

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I usually spend summer Sundays in the garden – the nearest Quaker Meeting is more than an hour away, and as that doesn’t seem like a good us...
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18 July 2010

Sometimes, things just move slowly

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This year, lots of things seem to be moving very slowly. The garden is taking ages to get up and running – things don’t want to sprout (exce...
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12 June 2010

The best way to grow an amazing crop of hay…

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… is to surround part of your pasture with fencing and call it a garden. All the rest of the pasture will have grass 2 cm tall at best, but ...
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09 June 2010

Cheerful tomato plants

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Been tired, wrung out and busy of late … so not writing much. So, here is a cheerful picture of tomato plants to tide you over until I com...
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05 April 2010

More progress in the garden

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Ev asked for pictures of the garden, so I had The Boy (who is a great photographer) take a few shots today while I finished raking the wide...
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03 April 2010

Finally getting dirty

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At long last, it’s time to get good and dirty in the garden! Yesterday, The Reluctant Farmer fired up the bobcat and brought in about 20 b...
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16 February 2010

A garden journal

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I love my piles of gardening books. I have a wide variety of references, and I mix and match strategies to suit what I’m growing and where. ...
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