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Saturday Linkages: Grains, Collapse and Mangoes

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Saturday Linkages
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...able-is-digital-fabrication.html … Winners and losers at the garden show | Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2014/03/seen-at-the-garden-show.html … How to Grow Sweet Potatoes and Mangoes in an Urban Jungle http://tinyurl.com/kltlghw Vietnamese swimmers ferry passengers across flooded rivers in plastic bags: http://boingboing.net/2014/03/26/vietnamese-swimmers-ferry-pass.html … Murder Machines: Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year http://w...

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California Gardening Guides

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...ith your vegetable garden: Burpee California Planting Guide Vegetable Gardening Handbook for Beginners (by friend of the blog Yvonne Savio) Sacramento Vegetable Planting Guide UC Master Gardeners of San Mateo & San Francisco Monthy Garden Checklist San Joaquin Valley Planting Guide San Diego Vegetable Planting Guide Happy growing!...

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Homesteading Disasters: The Skunk Menace

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Mistakes
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...And each year I wake up the morning after planting to a kind of vegetable garden apocalypse–dozens of V shaped holes, overturned seedlings and scattered seeds. And each year I swear off vegetable gardening entirely. Actual photo of absent-minded conquistadors. So what’s the science behind this? Why do skunks dig? Skunks dig for doubloons dropped by absent-minded conquistadors many generations ago here in California. Our gardens in Los Angeles are...

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Build a Washing Machine Greywater Surge Tank

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Water Conservation
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...t is called a “bulkhead” fitting in order to hook up the tank to a regular garden hose. Instructions for doing this can be found here. Seal the fitting with silicon. Connect this fitting with a standard garden hose and use a ball valve if you want to be able to hold the water in the tank temporarily. Remember that greywater quickly turns into black water if allowed to sit around for more than 24 hours, so use this water quickly. 4. Direct your was...

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