Nursery Customers From Hell

April 19, 2013

...Dos Gringos in DC) a woman laughed at it and said I should just get a new plant. What a meanie. I told her no, I want this plant to grow and she asked if I had been giving it nutrients. D’OH! I didn’t know that was something I was supposed to do. Well, it’s been maybe a month and a half now and The Gringo has grown to about 3.5 inches and is sprouting out. YAY! It’s alive! The man behind the counter was much nicer and saw the potential…but The Gr...

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How to Deal With Thrips on Stone Fruit

Mr. Homegrown

July 22, 2013

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Pests

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...ering sites are disturbed or dry up, thrips migrate to flowering trees and plants and deposit eggs in the tender portions of the host plant, e.g. shoots, buds, and flower parts. Thrips are often attracted to weeds blooming on the orchard floor. To prevent driving thrips into the trees, do not disc the cover crop when trees are in bloom. Open, weedy land adjacent to orchards should be disced as early as possible to prevent thrips development and mi...

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Mistakes we have made . . .

Mr. Homegrown

May 24, 2008

Animals, Chickens, Permaculture, Thoughtstylings

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...est for the inspector to have a connection to either real estate agent. 6. Planting a lawn We weren’t always the Molotov cocktail tossing vegetable growing radicals that we are now. Just after we bought this place ten years ago we planted a lawn in the backyard. With some temporary fencing, we roped it off from the Doberman to allow it to grow. After a month the lawn matured into a lush green carpet . . . but it only lasted five minutes. That was...

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What is green water?

Mrs. Homegrown

December 10, 2015

Back to the Garden, Gardening, Water Conservation

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...on our land, and let them return to the soil. Mulch is is vital to living soil, while bare soil is dead soil. We make our yards lush. Soil life occurs around the root zones of plants, so more plants means better soil. We plant trees, which the founder of TreePeople, Andy Lipkis, calls “living cisterns.”...

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Saturday Linkages: Saris, Punk Rockers, Poppies and Young Agrarians

Mr. Homegrown

April 26, 2014

Saturday Linkages

....recyclart.org/2014/04/repurposed-wood-log-lamps/ … How to build a cheap 3D-scanner mostly out of spare parts http://wp.me/p1SNZL-1 A Young Agrarian Land Covenant http://garynabhan.com/i/archives/2446 The Scientific Gardener: Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener by Joseph Tyc… http://scientificgardener.blogspot.com/2014/04/plant-breeding-for-home-gardener-by.html?spref=tw … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimpl...

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