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Sibling Rivalry in the Three Sisters Garden1 comment

srchalup wrote 6 months ago: Faithful readers may recall the earlier plans I published here for a Three Sisters garden of corn, s … more →

Tags: Community Garden, Three Sisters

Home Hydroponics: Yes, You Can!

srchalup wrote 6 months ago: Someone browsing my FlickR stream commented on this picture of one of last year’s hydroponic f … more →

Tags: hydroponic, DIY, egglplant, hydroponics

Bloomtacular

srchalup wrote 7 months ago: This is the part on Sprockets where we BLOOM!! We’ve had some chills, thrills, and most recently a l … more →

Tags: backyard, Beans, Containers, Flower, hydroponic, Untitled

Spring Garden Season

srchalup wrote 8 months ago: It’s here, and it’s in full swing. The past month has been kind of like that song on the … more →

Tags: 150 mile diet, backyard, biological controls, Eat locally, Garden, Compost, Fertilizing, Garden Prep, greensand

Our Buddy, Corn

srchalup wrote 1 year ago: The corn is as low as an elephant’s toe? Just 2 or 3 weeks ago, it was about 70 centimeters an … more →

Tags: Advice, Corn, maize

Community Garden Visit

srchalup wrote 1 year ago: The bee and butterfly garden is coming into full bloom, just a few paces away from our garden bed. I … more →

Tags: Community Garden, charles street gardens

Springing back from the heat wave

srchalup wrote 1 year ago: Nobody has moved into any of my fence birdhouses yet, alas. I will try putting a few up under the ea … more →

Tags: Critters, Cats, Heat Wave, Herbs

Flavoring Your Summer Veggies, Right Now

srchalup wrote 1 year ago: Recently someone commented on an older posting of mine that some of last year’s veggies seemed … more →

Tags: backyard, Advice, flavor, Minerals, Soil Amendments, Vegetables

More Stir-Fry Spikes, and A Pleasant Surprise

srchalup wrote 1 year ago: The warm weather continues to draw up delicious flower stalks from my Asian greens. I harvested a la … more →

Tags: Tomatoes, Greens, surprise

Winter Greens: Getting Spiky About Spring

srchalup wrote 1 year ago: Welcome, Weekend Herb Blogging readers! Not only are winter greens easy and fun to grow, they like t … more →

Tags: Garden, Greens, winter, Stir fry, Edible flowers, tsatsoi, joi choi, broccoli

Easy Fall Greens via Hydroponics

srchalup wrote 2 years ago: Welcome, Weekend Herb Blogging readers. Doesn’t that look scrumptious? A crisp, shiny rosette … more →

Tags: Lettuce, Containers, Greens, hydroponic

Garden Desktop: Full of Beans

srchalup wrote 2 years ago: This week’s Garden Desktop doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. Well, actually, wait, it D … more →

Tags: harvest, heirloom, garden desktop, Beans

Mustard Season

srchalup wrote 2 years ago: Just in time for Weekend Herb Blogging, hosted this week by the talented Pille, we celebrate the beg … more →

Tags: Weekend Herb Blogging, heirloom, Lettuce, mustard

Strawberry Woes: Compost to the Rescue

srchalup wrote 2 years ago: Most commercial strawberry growers rely on heavy applications of methyl bromide or similar fumigants … more →

Tags: Compost, Natural Alternatives, root rot, strawberry

A is for Avoiding Arsenic

srchalup wrote 2 years ago: We’re starting a new series, the “Garden ABC”. I thought we’d begin with a l … more →

Tags: Agriculture, garden abc, organic, warning

Full Circle Farm Groundbreaking

srchalup wrote 2 years ago: Sunnyvale city officials joined board members from the Santa Clara Unified School District and the S … more →

Tags: sunnyvale, full circle farm, Community Garden, Local News

Winter Squash Pantry1 comment

srchalup wrote 2 years ago: This year I’m proudly displaying our winter squash as they cure, rather than lining them up al … more →

Tags: Garden, harvest, storing squash, winter squashes, Squash, futsu, kabocha, kuri

Garden Wrap-Up

srchalup wrote 2 years ago: This is the time of year when we take apart the garden and put it back together for winter gardening … more →

Tags: Garden, harvest snapshot, Drying, Tomatoes, Potatoes, dry beans, Meta, Real Life

Days of Squash and Roses

srchalup wrote 2 years ago: Summer is clearly coming to a close here in Silicon Valley. Breezy days in the high 70’s wind … more →

Tags: Garden, harvest snapshot, Squash, Roses, storing squash, Storage


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