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Gardening 101: Introduction and Garden Plans

April 5, 2011

As many of you already know, gardening is a huge part of our lives.  We rely heavily on our summer harvests to provide is with food all winter long.  Without our summer bounty, our grocery budget wouldn’t be the same! While there is probably more than 10 reasons, here are Ten Reasons You Should Start [...]

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Ten Reasons to Start a Vegetable Garden

March 7, 2011

With grocery prices on the rise, it’s more important than ever to brush up on your gardening skills and do what you can, at home, to save where you can.  I have been able to shave a big chunk off of our grocery budget by gardening. While I know it’s not possible for everyone to [...]

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Starting the Garden

March 16, 2010

I’m definitely not as on top of the garden this year as I was last year.  I finally got around to starting some of our seeds over the weekend.  Good thing too, as our plant date is coming up in April!  If you are unsure of when your plant date is, check  here. As I’ve [...]

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2010 Goals Update

February 18, 2010

It has been waaayyyy too long since I have checked on the progress of my 2010 Goals.  Life has been crazy busy around here, and I just haven’ t thought a whole lot about it.  But, it’s time!  The whole purpose of me setting these goals and posting about them, was so that I would [...]

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Garden Update

May 29, 2009

I’m so excited to finally show some pictures of my garden. As I mentioned here, we are doing a different method this year. Instead of your typical rows, we are doing beds directly into the ground. My plants are big enough now, that you can see everything a little better. Right now on the walkways [...]

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April Showers Bring May Flowers

May 1, 2009

In this case I hoping for those blooms to be on my veggie plants. But, I’ll take some blooms on the flowers, too please. The last few weeks of April have been nothing but rain. Overnight our yard has turned into a jungle of sorts, but the sun hasn’t came out long enough to dry [...]

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Springtime?

April 17, 2009

I think that Spring has decided to taunt me. It’s warm, and then it’s cold, or so windy that when you step outside you just about float away. This has been making it somewhat difficult for me to accomplish anything worthy in the garden. For my area, my last average frost date is April 18th [...]

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Garden Update

March 27, 2009

I apologize that with all the talk of gardening, I haven’t produced a photo to show off my own seedlings. I’ve been experiencing technical difficulties with my computer. For one reason or another it will not recognize the USB cord that goes to my camera dock. Finally, I gave up and just took my memory [...]

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Determining Seedling Problems

March 26, 2009

So, you’ve started your seedlings and they are growing like nobody’s business. They already have their second set of leaves, and are ready to repotted. The repotting process was a complete success, and your plants are growing even more. They are beginning to look more and more like the real thing. And then, you notice [...]

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Starting Seeds: A How-To

March 18, 2009

With all the talk about gardening the last few days, I have received a lot of questions on how I do things. For more about why we chose seeds, see this post. Here is my basic list of things to keep in mind when trying to grow plants from all those precious little seeds. The [...]

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