I’ve had a lot of volunteer potatoes popping up throughout the garden. Some of them quite deep. The best thing to do with volunteer plants (if you know what they are) is to replant them, filling in areas that didn’t…
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Category: 30 Min.
30 minutes per day in the garden – can I do it? Can I find and use enough time saving and labor saving “garden hacks” to be able to keep the garden tended, weed free, productive in only 30 minutes per day? We’ll find out!
Day 48 – Add Yet Another Bed
Added another two banana boxes with a wicking option underneath. Dug down four inches, layed down plastic, sifted the soil I had dug out and put the gravel and rocks onto the plastic. Added a pipe and wood chips, then…
Day 46: DIY Strawberry Hill
With the rain, and the rain, plus the thunderstorms, unexpected downpours, not a lot has been happening in the garden other than the routine slug hunts, but all is not lost. Now that it’s drier (for the day), I’ll be…
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Day 42 – Strawberries Thriving on Neglect?
…and rain, followed by more rain… Moved the second set of tomatoes out to harden off, as well as the coveted cucumbers that have started, and the rain is pelting them pretty badly. While it’s raining, though – you can…
Day 40 – Garden Wildlife and Carrots and when Cucumbers Go Bad
More rain, more slugs, more salamanders! We have these orange salamanders that show up in the tall grass and in the marshy areas, and sometimes on the road (I pick them up with wet hands and transport them across if…
Day 35 – Experiments in Composting
Seems the 30 min/day is going to be more of an “average” than a set in stone scheduled time for me. With young children’s schedules for acro, ballet, etc., along with work, trips to the “transfer station” (where we bring…
Day 33 – Williamsburg Farmer’s Market
I’d dropped by the Williamsburg Farmer’s Market last week and seen several people who had nice healthy plants for sale. Hoping to get a head start, or at least move things along, I went down there again this Thursday. The…
Day 32 – Carrots!
Carrots – a mixture of Imperator(88%) and Cosmic Purple (12%) went into two rows so far, one “row” (two banana boxes), and one foot in the Hugelkultur (I’ll have to see if that’s a pronoun) bed. Since I had my hat…
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Day 31 Some Growing, Some Groaning
Most of the beds are showing signs of life. I overplanted in a couple of areas, other areas not much is showing up. Broccoli is overplanted in the lasagna bed, 25% germination in the wicking bed – about 50% germination…
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Day 28 – Blast the Ballasts! Full Steam Ahead!
The grow lights (T8 Fluorescents) gave out on me today, following our sump pump alarm and the sump pump the day before, with a pinhole leak in the bathtub’s hot water pipe and an outlet dying in the kitchen. Ah…
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