What a great idea from Cooks Garden Center! Using the different colored seeds for the different shades. Almost makes me wish I’d grown more sunflowers – although the squirrels and the chickadees have made sohrt work of everything that…
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Outdoor Gardening is Over? Not Quite…
We’re getting our first frost tomorrow morning, so the remnants in the garden will be coming in. Most of the tomatoes got struck down by a late blight – except for “Matt’s Wild Cherry Tomatoes” that are the best thin…
Gardenhacker’s Garden Update
The potatoes are taking off, despite the extreme wet weather, bought some starts at the Williamsburg Farmer’s Market including some orange melons, Paul Robeson Tomatoes, and an heirloom I never knew about: Northampton Paste Tomato(aka Northampton Italian Plum), went down…
Don’t Ask, Don’t Till
Gardenhacker Garden Plan for 2012
The plan this year is less experiments, more volume. The hugelkultur bed did well last year, as did the lasagna (sheet composting) beds, with mixed results in the box beds and the failure of the wicking bed. Okay, not…
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True Square Foot Gardening
An intriguing garden idea: Create a garden you can walk through, while giving the plants ample room to grow. By alternating a foot of growing area and a foot square “stepping stone”, arranged like a checker board. Indeed, even the…
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Early Blight Organic Solutions
Early blight on tomato plants starts on the lowest leaves as dark spots, working it’s way up to eventually consume the whole plant. This fungus (Alternaria solani) overwinters on the debris in the soil, especially on the remains of the…
Great Public Domain Book Available Online
There is a wonderful reference in the public domain regarding plant roots. Written in 1927, this book illustrates the root growth of many vegetables in a variety of conditions. sustainablefarmer.com has made this book available online at http://www.sustainablefarmer.com/pdflibrary/library-rootdevelopment.pdf. While the book…
Vertical Garden DIY
We’ve seen several vertical garden DIY’s from using old shoe organizers to custom crafted walls. They have always intrigued, but not to the point of pulling out the saw or rearranging the shoes to create one. This is an easily created…
Thumb Controlled Watering Pot (via funinthemaking.net)
This is an excellent easy to create waterer for just about any garden. funinthemaking.net has a great idea for those syrup containers that I hate to throw away. They’re sturdy, look good and I knew there had to be another…
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