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First Day in My New Garden
I have been on the waiting list for space in a beautiful community garden here in Santa Monica called Ocean View Farms, and it really does have a view of the ocean. It is beautifully located and very… more →
A Dollar Out of Fifteen Cents
October 2012 - In the Field
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wrote 3 weeks ago: At a time when the rest of the grape growing world was harvesting the 2012 vintage, we were ready to … more →
Learning to grow your own workshop 2 March
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wrote 2 months ago: We had a fabulous workshop yesterday. Jo and Janine arrived full of energy and enthusiasm. We starte … more →
Garden Tips: Where to Plant, and When
wrote 1 year ago: Increase your success in the garden and enhance your own attunement to the natural flow of the seaso … more →
Asparagus, Part 4: More Seeds
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wrote 1 year ago: Asparagus at 7 weeks The Great Asparagus Experiment has now become two experiments. Of the thirty se … more →
Under The Sun
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wrote 1 year ago: King of the Hill and I took a day’s leave from work yesterday, to work on his mum’s gard … more →
Preparing the small raised bed
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wrote 1 year ago: I dug out weeds and loosened the soil a little on the smaller raised bed (2′ x 8′). The … more →
Direct Sowing Cool-Weather Seeds
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wrote 1 year ago: If you’re a little behind schedule like me, there’s still time to get cool-weather seeds in the grou … more →
(Finally!) Breaking Ground
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wrote 1 year ago: Last week, I finally broke ground to create my long-planned serenity garden. (For more about the ser … more →
Community Garden Kick Off!
wrote 2 years ago: Today was the community garden plot kick off! Well, it got off to a slow start. Three of us plotte … more →
Soil Test
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wrote 2 years ago: I always feel that creating a new garden area is a lot like painting a room – 90% of success is in t … more →
Got so much to do
wrote 2 years ago: Just a quick note to say why I have been so long since posting. The sun has peaked his head out very … more →
Spring, I think you must be on the way
wrote 2 years ago: The sun was out today at my house. And it really felt like Spring coming our way. Which means I am g … more →
Testing Your Garden Soil
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wrote 2 years ago: Not having great soil is really a problem here in Northern New Mexico and makes growing anything a c … more →
A Two-Garden Lifestyle
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wrote 2 years ago: xx Recently, when I posted photos from both my Maine and Pennsylvania gardens for bloom day (see The … more →
summer squash and cucumber seeds in
wrote 3 years ago: When I think of all the things I still need to do in the garden, I’m overwhelmed. So I break … more →
Herb Garden @ Rumours
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wrote 3 years ago: Prepping the bed On Wednesday, which may well have been the most gorgeous day of 2010 so far, Christ … more →
Garden Alchemy: Turning Sand to Soil
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wrote 3 years ago: As summer turns into fall, we’ve entered a period of spectacular weather (finally!!) here in Maine: … more →
Love the Plant You’re With
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wrote 3 years ago: When I first started gardening, I would fall in love with flowers that I saw pictured in books, or b … more →
Clearing the New Garden
wrote 4 years ago: Today I began clearing out my new space in order to put in some raised beds. My new garden space in … more →
