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    My veggie garden

    The problem with this last pile was I didn't keep it watered during the drought. I had a hard enough time keeping the small veg garden hydrated that I didn't care about the pile. I've gotten really into the worm bins and am liking the compost output. The composting ability is amazing with...
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    My veggie garden

    I typically fail with traditional compost because I keep adding stuff to it so I never have a finished product. This year I switched so all my kitchen scraps go into worm bins and get vermi-composted while the garden and yard waste goes into a traditional heap. This year I grabbed some...
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    First Mantis

    This mantis seems to have visited my neighbor also. My neighbor watched her lay an egg pod / foam right in a string of pole beans. As I was walking around the block he flagged me down to show me. Anyway the question is how to handle this egg pod. The beans are no where near protected for the...
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    First Mantis

    I was rushing in after a dog walk tonight - chased by a thunder storm and the accompanying rain - and as I reached for the storm door handle there was a mantis less than a meter away walking up the corner molding / trim of the vinyl siding. This girl was BIG, easily 10 cm long, and tan brown...
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    pole green beans

    I'm looking for a dependable pole bean for fresh beans - green, wax, or red. Do any seed savers out there have a few extra they would spare and willing to send out? Thanks
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    Neat Plant Hanger

    So I randomly clicked here a minute ago. I think I will try this to be used a coat hooks next to the back door in my kitchen.
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    Update: As of the morning of 9/15 I have harvested 18.8 kg from my garden at a cost of $2.69 per pound. Potatoes were an absolute bust and I won't waste my time with them again in this small yard. The drought and extreme heat has greatly reduced my harvest. As a slicer tomato I only...
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    wanted garlic

    I've been planting around mid October and harvest just before it blooms in July. Both times I did this there was a little above ground growth by the time snow flew. I grow hardneck garlic.
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    Update: As of the morning of 9/3 I have harvested 14.6 kg from my garden at a cost of $3.47 per pound. I think I will still harvest potatoes and basil today. The potatoes are the wild card but there will be a large basil harvest. My basil plants are over a meter tall and my toddler can...
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    Recipe Sour dough bread

    I'll try this one when I start bread again but how is this sour dough? I made a few sour doughs over the last two years but my starter had problems and eventually died. I had a really good honey wholewheat bread recipe that I adapted from one out of Joy of Cooking 75th anniversary ed. I...
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    Beets

    On Friday I planted some beets and radishes. Today I put the ax to some under performing beans, added compost and some pre-compost, and planted several things. Beets Fordhook chard broccoli brussles sprouts carrots spinach turnips Pea pods This is in a raised bed which I will be...
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    Mr Yan Veg harvest 2012

    This garden is not producing like I want it to. Potatoes were a bust - guessing it was too hot and I grow / grew them in containers. I won't waste time and space on potatoes again until I have enough area to warrant it. Today I got my first tomatoes. This is over a month later than normal...
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    Looking for ideas on fencing..

    With how high deer jump and can clear a fence your options are really limited. I live in the middle of a city and have a 5' tall wooden privacy fence around my backyard. Along my garden side I have extended the posts up and attached heavy gauge wire woven fence (live stock type fencing a...
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    building new planter boxes

    I just obtained some 1x6 redwood which is real 4 quarter thick which I would like to build some new veg planter boxes out of for my patio. 14 or 16 inches wide is all I can go and about 3 feet long will be the most efficient use of the wood based on the lengths. Any thoughts on planter...
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    cantaloupe pollenation

    It has been a busy week and I had not checked the vine again until today. Looks like I have three fruit set right now. The largest is still oblong along the blossom / stem axis and about 10 cm long and 5 cm across. The others are not much bigger than a two year old girl's fist. I hope to get...
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    Beets

    These were lightly oiled and sealed in foil then baked at 400 F. They were whole and still had the skins on. I just don't remember how long the baking went. I have the pickling recipe I used somewhere. I do remember that the whole house smelled like Christmas when I made them. It was the...
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    Beets

    Well my mom was here and made some oven roasted beets. Both myself and my daughter found them amazing but my wife didn't really like them. Have any of you heard of a toddler that can be bribed with roasted beets with slice shallots and a touch of white-wine vinegar? I've done pickled beets...
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    Newbie from Michigan

    Hey Mindy, welcome. There are a few here, like myself, that are Michigan ex-pats.
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    cantaloupe pollenation

    This one is going up a trellis about 4 feet away from the sugar baby watermelon. But the watermelon and the cantaloupe are on different trellises. Naturally the day that the female flower opened it was a steady light rain and the flower opened facing up like a cup. Anyway when I got home from...
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    cantaloupe pollenation

    Does anyone know if cantaloupe is self fertile. I know it has male and female flowers and needs to be pollinated but will a single plant produce? I lost two of the three vines I had going. Is the surviving third vine a waste of space or might it give a mellon? Thanks


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