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World’s Skinniest Farm Planted in Brookline, MA

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening
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From 200footgarden.blogspot.com: “The 200 Foot Garden is a community garden/art project, to create a commuter garden in Brookline, Massachusetts. Our hope is to add some beauty and delight to a very everyday stretch of sidewalk and chain-link fence. It’s also our hope to remind people that healthy vegetables can be grown in all sorts of environments, not just farms or big yards or community garden plots. The 200 Foot Garden is also...

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Four Ways to Preserve Prickly Pear Pads (Nopales)

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Food Preservation, How-to, Recipes
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...ices). I used a tested recipe for okra and consumed the product immediately as I don’t trust my own untested pressure canning recipes. The results were acceptable but not exciting–basically they tasted like canned vegetables and had a slightly mushy texture. If I had a tested recipe to work with, that used a small amount of vinegar, perhaps the processing time could be reduced, leading to a crisper result. Lastly I should mention tha...

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My Big Fat Greek Squash

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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Every time I visit my mom, her Greek neighbor pops over the fence to offer me seeds and plants. He visits Greece each summer and comes back with seeds for plants whose names he can’t translate into English. As a result I always have a few mystery Greek vegetables growing in the garden. This spring he gave me a squash seedling he had propagated. It grew into a massive vine and produced two winter squashes whose weight exceeded the capacit...

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Bean Fest, Episode 5: Black-Eyed Pea Salad (Lubyi Msallat)

Mrs. Homegrown
Bean Fest, Food, Recipes
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...e’ve been trying out over the last week called Vegetarian Dishes from Across the Middle East, by Arto der Haroutunian. These recipes really fit well with our kitchen just now, considering its emphasis on classic summer vegetables (like eggplants, cucumbers and tomatoes) and bulk bin foods like beans and grains. This black-eyed pea appetizer (meze) is of Syrian-Lebanese origin and is easy to prepare. All you have to do is boil up the beans...

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Two Vegetable Gardening Commandments

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...will be visited by a clumsy skunk or a cat looking for a place to poop. I hate bird netting–it inevitably gets tangled and is a pain to work with–but the fact is that if I don’t use it I don’t get any vegetables. And, if I plant any brassicas at this time of the year without first covering them with row cover material, they will get munched to the ground by cabbage leaf caterpillars.  I’ve found that once the plants...

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Farmers Markets: Buyer Beware

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
20 Comments
...uce with wholesale produce. This report came out just after two supermarket chains, Safeway and Albertsons, created fake farmer’s markets inside and outside of their stores. Yet more reasons to grow your own fruits and vegetables if you have space. Lying about the source of produce and pesticide use is so easy to pull off and the price incentive so rewarding that I’m sure this is happening everywhere. I’m interested in hearing...

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A Self-Watering Container in a Pot

Mr. Homegrown
Self Watering Containers
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...t we’re amused to report has been “favorited” on Youtube by pot growers. You fill SWCs up via a pipe and they can go at least a week between waterings. It is, in our opinion, the only way to grow water-needy vegetables reliably in a container. We have used them to successfully grow eggplants, tomatoes, collard greens and blueberries (note to the DEA: no cash crops at the Homegrown Revolution compound!). With our backyard looking...

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Erik’s New Years Resolutions

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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rt a podcast shoot some how-to videos create an iPhone or iPad app check email only twice a day clean up the graphic design on the blog and organize information better take more time to cook keep the kitchen spotless ferment vegetables more often celebrate the wonderful awesomeness that is Mrs. Homegrown each and every day And that’s just January. It’s going to be a great year for everyone in the urban homestead movement! What are...

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Till vs. No-Till

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Soil, Vegetable Gardening
31 Comments
...milar argument is often made in conventional agriculture (compared to organic agriculture) to till, use excessive fertilizers, pesticides, etc. I guess it depends on how you regard the soil – as a medium for growing vegetables or as an ecosystem (and I’m not being judgmental). It’s a philosophical choice. No-till agriculture advocates argue that tilling oxidizes organic matter leading to a loss in soil fertility and the cre...

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2011 in Review: The Garden

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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It’s was a difficult year in the garden. A lead and zinc issue screwed up my winter vegetables garden plans. At least we managed to find some river rocks and put in a path. I found this photo from December 2010. I was certainly a lot more organized that year. For 2012, I’m putting in raised beds to deal with the heavy metal issue and we’ve already planted more native plants. But most importantly one of my New Years resolution...

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