Tag: gardening
member name: Anitra Raging Granny / Raging Moderate Freeman
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May 23, 2007 12:46 AM EDT --
The tenants in our apartment building have our first garden this year. In our first trip to the nursery, we bought half a dozen trays of miscellaneous greens called "mesclun" -- which, . . .
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June 02, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
The tenants in our apartment building started our first group garden this year. Our inaugural planting was April 28th. Among the first plants we put in were half-a-dozen trays of "mesclun" . . .
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June 07, 2007 05:11 AM EDT --
The tenants in our apartment building started our first urban garden this April. One of the first decisions we made was that it would be an organic garden.
When I hear "organic garden" I think . . .
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June 05, 2007 01:50 AM EDT --
Our apartment building's small urban garden is divided into three raised beds, officially dubbed the herb bed, the strawberry bed, and the veggie patch. Actually, several types of plants are mixed . . .
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June 06, 2007 04:07 AM EDT --
My bones are shells, my flesh hangs soft,
family treats me like delicate china;
well,
my head does look like an egg in a cup.
I still tend my garden.
Butterflies weave among spires of delphinium,
lay . . .
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June 08, 2007 01:49 AM EDT --
Deceased, I tell you! dead dead dead dead dead...
Not everyone wants to give up on it, though.
We bought most of our garden plants for our building's first garden from the nursery, or grew them from . . .
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June 03, 2007 03:22 AM EDT --
"Mother Earth News" magazine has a "GREAT CUCUMBER CHALLENGE" contest going. To score points:
Try various types of cucumber (Give yourself 1 pt. for each type)
Match supply . . .
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June 01, 2007 05:53 AM EDT --
We (the tenants in our buiulding) bought half a dozen trays of "mesclun," mixed greens, from Home Depot for our first garden this year. I've spent the last month trying to identify them. . . .
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June 10, 2007 05:25 PM EDT --
The Worm Saga: My First Adventures in Vermicomposting recounted how I started to raise my first batch of composting worms in the box they came in -- that Priority Mail Box in Photo #1 -- and the other . . .
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June 03, 2007 09:13 PM EDT --
I'm taking the Great Cucumber Challenge from Mother Earth News: I hope to grow five different kinds of cucumbers, three or four plants of each variety, in our tiny urban garden, among all the other . . .
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May 23, 2007 01:42 AM EDT --
Our first attempts with cucumbers, zucchini, and pumpkin plants (all from the nursery) were eaten by birds. Of the next round of transplants from the nursery, what has survived the birds seems . . .
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