Search Results for: label/tomatoes/2010/06/the-urban-homestead

507 results

Beads and Roman Sandals Won’t Be Seen

Avatar photo
Permaculture
...ever-present consumer culture demands of us somehow you automatically get labeled a hippie. While sadly the original hippie movement went astray, we “dig” the new and more pragmatic kind of hippie stuff happening over at Arthur Magazine. Besides, in the end, we’re all untied against the “Man”. Somehow this long winded rant leads us back to the creation of the herb spiral which replaced an overgrown patch of lavender. Built with concrete salvaged...

Read…

Does Facebook Actually Work for Promoting a Small Business or Non-Profit?

Avatar photo
Thoughtstylings
14 Comments
...on Facebook and then we’ll move on to more pressing problems like growing tomatoes and keeping the squirrels off the peaches. My favorite podcaster, who goes by the initials KMO, interviewed contrarian journalist and advertising consultant B.J. Mendelson for episode 524 of the C-Realm podcast. In the interview Mendelson addresses one of the concerns that many of us face in our relationship with Facebook, namely that we have to be on it in order t...

Read…

Our Disastrous Summer Garden

Avatar photo
Fruit Trees, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
37 Comments
...was stunted and anemic. It seemed incapable of growing past 8 inches. Our tomatoes grew well, produced a fair amount of fruit and then abruptly dried up and croaked. We planted zucchini too late and it got a bad case of powdery mildew. The raccoons figured out how to bust through the bird netting that was supposed to keep them out of the vegetable beds. They completely obliterated two out of four vegetable beds. With the exception of our pomegran...

Read…

A Plea for Plastic Vegetables

Avatar photo
Thoughtstylings
2 Comments
...o a trellis or a vine that looks like the leaves of a string bean plant 8. Tomatoes and Tomato plants (All Varieties) 9. Green and Purple Cabbage 10. Any vegetable plants can be considered We will need to place an order very quickly and be able to receive an order very quickly. Please respond by letting me know what you carry and if you can ship samples overnight. Thanks very much. Sincerely, NAME WITHHELD Greensperson We did a blog post about fak...

Read…

Putting Your Civic House in Order: How the Young Members of the Family Help

Avatar photo
Gardening
3 Comments
...rried on each year to teach the special culture of such plants as peppers, tomatoes, corn, etc. ; that the organizing of garden clubs, rabbit clubs, poultry clubs, and so, on, should be encouraged and that exhibits should be arranged from time to time at the stores of local merchants, in the parks, or suitable places; that all possible aid should be secured from parent and teacher associations, civic and improvement associations; that children sho...

Read…