Gnomes in the garden
width=”550″ height=”215″ border=”0″ /> Pretty awesome Ikea commercial involving gnomes, fortunately for me I just have one gnome and he is always sleeping.
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Chive flowers
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How to make a self watering planter with a 5 gallon bucket
width=”550″ height=”309″ border=”0″ /> Container gardening can be an excellent way to take advantage of normally unusable space on your patio or garden. The main problem I have with container gardens is they can dry out very quickly and for plants like tomatoes and cucumbers this can be a quick death for your plants, my solution to this was to build a self watering planter using just a few…
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Happy to see some help in my garden
width=”549″ height=”365″ /> I am also getting some help watering the zucchinis… She has really grown up since last time I posted a picture
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Nutrient density of vegetables in your garden
width=”550″ height=”316″ /> Just out of curiosity I got my hands on the USDA food database and had a little fun in Excel and the results were pretty interesting. Assuming I wanted to figure out what vegetables I could grow in my garden had the highest nutrient density. I wrote a formula for each nutrient from Vitamin A to Zinc what percentage rank across all of the foods did…
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How to make a grow box controller
While my existing system was working I decided to make an upgrade to the electronics on my old grow box controller specifically to have a much more industrial strength version that will run without problems for decades to come. This version also is much safer…still probably not quite to a building code but much less worries to burning my garage down in the middle of the night. Finally it…
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Planting cucumbers, pumpkins, and zucchini seeds today
width=”550″ height=”309″ /> When it comes to pumpkins, cucumbers, and zucchini, I plant these and much the same way. This might make sense since they are all in the cucurbits, Latin for the squash portion of the family. All three of these are pretty rapid grower so no need for small cells and transplants here. Actually all three really do not appreciate being transplanted so go with the largest…
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Guess it is not quite spring yet
width=”550″ height=”309″ /> I really can’t complain with the many feet of snow dumped over the rest of the country but got a bit of a surprise with a couple inches of snow in the garden when we haven’t had any here all year…
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Site unpacking after our move
width=”550″ height=”367″ /> Well finally my level of frustration for poor performance, support, and site availability overcame my laziness for moving my site I finally pulled the trigger and made the move to a new hosting provider. Hopefully you will find things running a little smoother and while I was add it doing some work to make performance even better and cleaning up some broken images/links while I am…
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Add some color to your vegetable garden
Vegetable gardening is a great activity to engage in, it is fun, nurturing and provides tangible results. Year after year many people take great satisfaction in producing their own fruit and vegetables at home. However sometime gardeners look to “spice” things up and create some variety in their routine. Planting less well known and visually interesting strains of vegetables is a great way to do this. Thanks to the…
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Broccoli in the winter garden
width=”549″ height=”412″ /> Not exactly time to harvest but nice to see a little life in my garden after our snow has melted away…
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Stealing natures free blackberries
width=”549″ height=”412″ /> Normally blackberries are in their prime in early August, but with our cold winter they are just starting to come around now. After a little bit of hunting my partners and I found a few good stretches of bushes and had out one gallon bucket of blackberries filled in no time. In the past I have created the following with these seemingly never-ending supply of free…
