Maggots!

July 29, 2006

...homestead, composting requires time and initiative. Unfortunately both our garden and our energy level are at a low point, both sapped by the record breaking heat – anyone see Al Gore’s movie? The result of this lack of effort has been the maggot party currently going on in our compost pile. The best compostin’ revolutionary I ever met, photographer Becky Cohen maintained a three pile system contained in bins she made out of scrap lumber. When the...

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June: National Bathroom Reading Month

Mr. Homegrown

June 26, 2008

Thoughtstylings

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...llustrations. Imagine Martha Stewart Living with columns on both vegetable gardening and tips on disassembling your AR15. We’re not libertarians ourselves but with both mainstream presidential candidates supporting warrantless wiretapping we’re beginning to see their points. Best of all, most of Backwoods Home is available free online. Backyard Poultry Magazine. Poultry porn for small scale chicken, duck, guinea and quail enthusiasts. As most book...

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Annie’s Annuals and Perennials

Mr. Homegrown

July 10, 2013

Garden Design, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...wide areas. Annie’s specializes in riotous color. Many of the spectacular gardens we visited on the Fling sourced their plants from Annie’s. And in addition to unusual and rare ornamental plants, Annie’s has a great selection of edibles. It’s first time I’ve ever seen Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) outside of a book. I had to keep a tight grip on my credit card to prevent myself from buying plants I had no way of getting home on my bike. The good news is...

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The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future: Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta

Mr. Homegrown

April 5, 2013

Garden Design, Gardening

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...he town council who wanted to tax it, claiming that it was a gallery not a garden. Little Sparta was a place of healing for the intensely agoraphobic Finlay. In the city, he could barely leave his room–at Little Sparta he could go outside. This is one of my favorite gardens–I’m a sucker for classicism but I also like that it has a narrative, that it tells the story of the people who lived in it. Here’s here’s another nice video about Little Sparta...

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Nursery Customers From Hell

Mr. Homegrown

April 19, 2013

Gardening, Thoughtstylings

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...nts in Los Angeles, check out the neighbors in your hood. EVERYONE grows a garden, all it takes is time. And in the end, I was able to achieve great results! I’ve always wanted my own staff of academics so, personally, I’m looking forward to spending a month “paying professors to analyze our soil.” As to “EVERYONE” growing a garden in Los Angeles, I suspect this Yelper is referring to the mowed weeds and Home Depot topiary that accounts for most o...

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