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Keeping the cats out: a quick fix

February 4th, 2009 by Jess · No Comments · Pest Control, Plot Updates, broccoli, seedlings

As I mentioned earlier, we’ve got a cat invading the garden. He started off munching on the potato plants, then discovered the poor broccoli starts.

What to do? Well, we’re kinda busy and the cat seems to be making his away around the garden without totally destroying the plants (yet). So for now, we took the […]

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The first seedlings arrive

February 2nd, 2009 by Jess · No Comments · Miscellaneous, Plot Updates, arugula, beets, broccoli, carrot, onion, radish, seedlings, spinach

The garden has been moving along rather quickly since we bounced back, and I’ve gotten a little behind in the posting. It ought to take me this week just to catch up. There are a number of stages in this process that are particularly exciting, and sewing seeds is one of them (harvesting, of course, […]

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Attempting a (sort of) square foot garden: amending the soil

January 31st, 2009 by Jess · No Comments · Composting, Plot Updates

So. Plot #2 started off with some difficulties (read: Back in the Saddle), but after amending the soil something fierce, it was starting to look hospitable again. See, vegetables grow in dirt. And although sun and water are important, the dirt is everything. If you’re a fancy gardener, you call it soil.
So we amended the […]

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Back In the Saddle

January 25th, 2009 by Jess · No Comments · Plot Updates

Holy crap. January is almost over. The first month of the year that just got started is almost over.
Just a few weeks ago we made our first 2009 visit to the plots, only to discover that #2 had been mysteriously taken over. After a bit of back-and-forth, it was discovered that the garden manager had […]

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The Garden Eight Weeks Later

May 11th, 2008 by Jess · No Comments · Plot Updates, arugula, lettuce, onion, spinach, tomatoes

It’s been about two months since we first planted our garden, and most of the veggies are looking really good. This first photo is after we planted our babies (we didn’t try to grow from seed this first time around). From front to back, we’ve got:

Spinach (one row)
Lettuce (one row)
Arugula (one row, with a single […]

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