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Category Archives: Gardening
Into Each Life a Little Rain Must Fall
When it’s too little you have to step up your watering game. We have been adding automatic watering solutions into our gardens and it’s been wonderful. A problem that we have is getting water to areas that have no access … Continue reading
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Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day. At our house we say that with flowers but not cut flowers with flats of flowers. I bought, delivered, and then planted flowers for my mom, whose birthday fell very close to Mother’s Day, so she got … Continue reading
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Potato Shaker / Soil Sifter
Last year I made a sifter for sifting compost. It’s just some 2×4’s screwed together with a piece of 1/2″ hardware cloth stapled to one side. The rectangle is 35 x 27, with the two shorter sides of the rectangle … Continue reading
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Fertigation
Ever since installing drip irrigation to our gardens, it has greatly reduced the amount of time spent each day watering. One of the things I wanted to add from the start was a fertigation system. We currently have 5 zones … Continue reading
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Raised Bed Greenhouse Top
We would like to put up a greenhouse, but for the time being, we do not have one. We’ve been researching crops you can plant early, and found that the brassicas are very frost and cold tolerant. In fact, they … Continue reading
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Change is for the birds part deux
When we built the new and improved coop I wanted features: I wanted to be able to stand up fully inside the building and in the run. I wanted to be able to collect eggs without having to go in … Continue reading
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Change is for the birds
Three big changes are happening for the chickens. We are switching from sand in the coop to coffee grounds. We are resolving the muddy slop in the run with compressed bedding pellets. We are changing their food in 3 ways.
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Bird of Paradise seeds are cool
These seeds are almost to pretty to plant. They have tufts of bright orange hair in a deep purple or black seed. The package suggests making a cut in the seed and then soaking them for 48 hours. A random … Continue reading
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A tale of three seeds from the islands
Recently I received these three seeds as a gift. While I love seeds and playing in the dirt is my favorite, I feel sorry for the seeds. We shall see if I can get them to grow and keep them … Continue reading
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