Top Ten Vegetable Gardening Mistakes

September 3, 2013

Gardening, Mistakes, Vegetable Gardening

...oth a steady supply of produce as well as a more attractive garden. 5. Not labeling plants What kind of okra is that? I have no damned idea. Too bad when I want to plant it again next year. All it takes is a sharpie and a plastic knife to fix this problem. 6. Not keeping a garden diary The two most important things to know are when something was planted and when the first and last harvests took place. With this data you can plan out next years gar...

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Straw Bale Garden: What I Learned

Mr. Homegrown

November 12, 2013

Gardening, Straw Bale Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...l producing well into November. Here’s what I learned from the experiment: Plants that suck up a lot of nitrogen, like squash, do well in a straw bale garden. My tomatoes flourished but, due to the high nitrogen, made more leaves than fruit. I’m not saying you shouldn’t plant tomatoes in straw bales–results will be better than in poor soil, but it’s hard to regulate the amount of nitrogen when prepping bales. Stake the bales. They will fall over e...

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Saturday Linkages: Sad Cookbooks, Pancakes and Tiny Homes

Mr. Homegrown

January 11, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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.../shar.es/9K57L Food Chain Restoration: Reconnecting Pollinators with Their Plants http://feedly.com/e/Q3gdfekh Cool hut? http://feedly.com/e/OQ1pOJ6a The Electricity-Generating Bicycle Desk That Would Power the World – James Hamblin – The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/the-electricity-generating-bicycle-desk-that-would-power-the-world/282692/ … Here’s How Ridiculous This Year’s CES Will Look in 2034 http://paleofuture.g...

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Saturday Linkages: Elves, Archdruids and Open Source Furniture

Mr. Homegrown

January 18, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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...gboing.net/2014/01/15/leaked-environmental-chapter.html … When The Economy Stinks, Our Books Get More Depressing http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/when-the-economy-stinks-our-books-get-more-depressing-1498156174 … Did you miss this last month? : Michael Pollan: How Smart Are Plants? Human-powered glider sets flight record in 1937 http://www.dvice.com/2013-3-18/image-day-human-powered-glider-sets-flight-record-1937 … Presence, Not Praise: How To Culti...

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Ask Lowes and Home Depot to Stop Killing Bees

Mrs. Homegrown

January 24, 2014

Animals, Bees

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...love” and stop selling bee-killing pesticides (neonicotinoids) and garden plants which have been pre-poisoned with such pesticides. In our opinion, systemic pesticides, like Imidacloprid (which is a neonictinoid) should preferably not be used at all, and certainly should not be sold casually to uninformed consumers in big box stores. If you want to read more about the relationship between these poisons and bees, check out this Wikipedia article:...

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