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    Looking for ideas and help...

    Aside from the plants and sightlines I'd be over asking the neighbor what the price for a veal calf goes for and looking for a processor.
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    Looking for ideas and help...

    I just looked at the Longwood Italian Water Gardens website and they listed english ivy as a noteworthy plant. What if you were to build a privacy fence or trellis type screen and train this up it? That will work as a green wall then you can place other and flowering plants in front of it to...
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    Mr Yan - March 2013

    Today I started the first round of seeds with the help of a 2.5 year old. We started 75 individual plants and two 3' long gutters of peas. Started count: in a flat - 50 peat pots 20 bell peppers 6 hot peppers 4 Thai Basil 10 green basil 4 broccoli 6 ground cherries in newspaper...
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    Looking for ideas and help...

    Maybe I should have just read the first line of your post. Sorry
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    Looking for ideas and help...

    Where abouts in the world are you? Knowing the growing climate will help greatly. My thoughts are anything you can't eat is not worth growing. Grapes? Hops? Scarlet Runner beans? Bamboo? Blueberry hedge?
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    Starting to plan 2013 - I need more space

    I need to get creative with plantings I have: one raised bed - 4'x7' with 18" tall sides half a dozen (ish) large round pots 3 planters 14" x 35" and 17" deep 1 planter ~50" x 14" x 17" a few 18 gallon tote SWC's a few 5 gallon SWC's some space under my peach tree almost 100 sq feet...
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    Starting to plan 2013 - I need more space

    What about raised beds and containers?
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    Starting to plan 2013 - I need more space

    Well it's now late February in the midwest so that means garden planning and seed orders. I just received my seed order from Johnny's today. I'm trying six new varieties: Goldie Husk Cherry (a ground cherry / husk tomato) Broccoli - Gypsy Kabocha Squash - Sunshine orange Havasu Pepper -...
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    Recipe Toasting White Bread

    We had a bread machine but gave it away. What is the point of one when you were making bread weekly for two years and never used it? I did finally get a stand mixer though. So far I've made 14 batches of bread in it this year. Each batch I make uses 1 kg of flour. I forgot to mention in the...
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    Recipe Toasting White Bread

    Lately I've been making a lot of bread. We eat a lot of bread, toasted or not but mostly as toast, and have only bought one loaf since Christmas. Anyway this is the recipe I've used since I ran out of whole wheat flour: preferment: 300 g water 300 g AP flour pinch of yeast Dough...
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    seed catalogs

    I order everything online but do like hard copies of reference materials. This idea extends to ebooks too. I prefer reading on the eReaders (we're about to buy our third device) but I want some of my reference books in the dead tree edition. I consider many seed catalogs reference material...
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    Recipe Soup I made today

    Sounds good. We may have to try one of yours. We're just ramping into soup season here. I have a pot of bean / chicken soup simmering away which I will add some pasta to when about done. Just a classic mix - onion, shallot, carrot, garlic, celery, white beans, red beans, pinto beans, whole...
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    learning new skills

    I like the berry caddy and think I will make a few. Slight tweak to size them for long neck bottles will be in order though. I read about hypertufa pots a lot but erred away when I read about the cracking with freeze thaw cycles. I'm building a few wooden planters this winter. How long did...
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    learning new skills

    I've been wondering this for a while but haven't gotten around to posting it. Aside from gardening what new skills / hobbies are other gardeners trying to learn or start? In the last few years, aside from gardening, I've taught myself how to knit, bake bread, and my newest endeavor is home...
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    Recipe Green tomatoes

    Last year I made some green tomato bread that turned out well - similar to any zuchini or fruit/spice bread. I found that there were only so many fried green tomatoes someone from the north could eat.
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    Subversive garden plots

    I just watched this vid from TED talks and thought it would be worth passing on. I think I read one of this guy's books not too long ago. Anyway he has some cool ideas about the importance of veg gardens but no info about gardening. Sure it is about a year old but maybe someone else hasn't yet...
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    Here's a nearly season end update. I put the ax to most plants and turned over my main bed and added a hefty amount of material to compost in place - a mix of grass clippings and fall leafs shredded by a neighbor's bagging lawnmower along with 3.8 cubic feet of peat. I have harvested 68.18...
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    Rebuilding soil in raised bed - garlic bed / worm composting bin

    This may actually be too much uncomposted organic matter. I could have problems as the ratio of leafs is too high. This may end up with too much setteling under the plants. I think I will mix it in really well then put a layer of the peat / soil mix over the top of that leaf vermi-compost mix...
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    Rebuilding soil in raised bed - garlic bed / worm composting bin

    Two years ago I started a raised bed over a concrete pad using the strawbale garden idea. Along the way that first year I thought why not and tossed in two tubs of "red worms" as sold at the local feed store. Last fall year I added a significant amount of shredded leafs and other organic...
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    My veggie garden

    Yesterday I just added the specialty grains and remains of the pelleted hops from a batch of beer to my worm compost bin. I have a raised garden bed which I'm finding out is really just a large outdoor worm compost bin. I hope to rebuild it for next year. This bed is over a concrete pad so I...


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