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Our Garden '12

Our Home Garden as featured on GNOWFGLINS

Wardee featured our home garden at her wonderful Dawn Home Farm Tour, we felt very honored! Check it out and make sure to look around at her wonderful website. Wardee is also the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fermenting Foods. We shared about our rented house with a small backyard of ...

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Garden update – September 25, 2012

Did you notice there was no garden update in August? Well, at that time it felt like the garden was pretty much done. We have a nice spot for our garden and greenhouse in summer, but as soon as the sun was at a lower angle we had lots of mid-day shade because of a huge tree in neighbor's yard. With ...

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Gardening at a friend’s farm

When I write about gardening here it is usually about our little garden in town. But this is not the only garden we garden in; we also grow lots of food at a friend's farm. This farm garden gets half of our attention but produces more then double the harvest. In fact, everything grows just so much ...

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Garden update – July 31, 2012

It was a stormy day here, second in a row. Wind, heavy rain, hail, and tornado warnings. I took some pictures for the end of July garden update already on Sunday, and then a few today, after the storm. We have been enjoying many homegrown goodies: salad, swiss chard, kale, broccoli, peas, ...

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Garden update – June 30, 2012

June seems to me to be the most challenging month for gardening. The excitement of planting and seeing things sprout and grow is over, but it is not yet time to harvest (at least for most things). ...

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Garden update – May 28, 2012

Ornamental strawberries are blooming. These are outside. Beautiful old-fashioned bleeding-heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis). Iris, I love this color, and it is the first one that is blooming. Petunia is very much getting ready to bloom. Zucchini happily growing in a ...

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We share how we build things and use alternative energies. Building a greenhouse is almost a must in a northern climate to overcome cold and frost.

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Growing your own food year round using organic methods. Here you will find many proven gardening tips and ideas.

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Under Preserving we share how we preserve food. With only about 100 frost free days, we want to preserve and store our summer bounties as much as we can to have homegrown food all throughout the long winter

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