Tag Archives: Gardening

The Great Garlic Mystery

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This is my first year growing garlic and this morning I noticed one of my garlic plants, which just so happened to be the most mature, had bent over like something had brushed it over.  Upon further investigation later that evening my wife noticed that there was what appeared to be a mini garlic clove […]

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Got Dirt!

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Last week I added two new 4’-0” by 4’-0” raised beds to my garden.  The beds were made out of some 2×12’s I was able to salvage prior to  them hitting a dumpster.  Last weekend I built the frames, added some hardware cloth to the bottom of the beds and dug them into the ground […]

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Planting Templates Part 2

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With the “heat wave” moving in tomorrow I figured I had better get out and plant at least one of the raised beds we finished filling with dirt this past weekend.  This will be my first attempt at succession planting.  I am planting seeds I purchased from the Seed Savers Exchange.  In this bed I […]

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