Halloween Berries
My oldest daughter coined the name “Halloween Berries” this name a couple years back as the leaves fall off exposing the hidden berries right at Halloween every year.
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Science Fair – Will smaller seeds sprout faster?
This site was practically started because of my oldest daughters science fair project Why Don’t Strawberries Grow in the Wintertime? Now with my youngest in kindergarten she was very excited to have a science fair project of her own, which should be pretty obvious from the picture above. With no influence from me she decided on answering the question if smaller seeds will sprout faster. These days science fairs…
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Growing sprouts in a Mason jar
My daughter was required to do a presentation which included an experiment using plants for school and of course her mother directed her to me. Given there was not a lot of time until the presentation I suggested that she grows sprouts, given you can go from seeds to a jar full of sprouts in less than a week. Construction You really can grow sprouts in almost anything. We…
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SHOWDOWN: PC Grow Box versus The Sun
Versus I am running out of space in my PC grow box now I have added lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers along with the original inhabitant, the strawberry plant. I noticed that the two cucumber plants were approximately the same size and taking up quite a bit of space, so decided to have a little competition and experiment and see which grows better given different environments. I will have one in…
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How to fertilize/side dress tomatoes/peppers in your garden
When your fruiting plants are flowering and bearing fruit this is a good time to give them a little extra boost. Though you don’t want to throw any old fertilizer at them at this point. You want them to get the nutrients they need to produce high yields of produce, though you don’t want to shock them with an abundance of nitrogen to stimulate new vegetative growth when you…
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Create a cheap PC thermometer with PS2/Gamepad Controller
You might be thinking what does this post have to do with vegetable gardening? Bear with me, I don’t have time to do a complete write up on it right now but let’s just say this is a component for “Project Everbearing” I gave my 7-year-old the honors of coming up with the codename, since he is my faithful assistant and cheerleader. For my current project I need the…
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Attack of the garlic
I either forgot to harvest a couple bulbs of garlic, or the mild winter we had in the Northwest may have allowed the garlic I planted last fall to slowly develop some bulbs. Thinking the first option is more likely, but did present me with a problem of some very tightly grouped garlic. Fortunately the solution to this problem was very simple. I pulled up the garlic bunches and…
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