Posts Tagged with "tomatoes"
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jillbcooks 8/17/2010 11:56:00 AM
As I blogged about earlier in the spring, I was gangbusters about starting a vegetable garden in our backyard. I blogged about raising the plants from seeds, and we ended up with many, many happy little seedlings that we transplanted into raised beds we had prepared.
Flash forward several weeks: I had a veritable jungle of plants jumbled and twisted together, fighting bravely for sunlight in my tiny raised beds of good intention.
It was inevitable. I would have to wear long sleeves, pants and gloves and just hack away at what was there in an attempt to save some plants and sacrifice others. I learned the hard way that I should have taken thinning the seedl...
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jillbcooks 2/19/2010 6:15:00 PM
Tomorrow I am headed to a garden and patio show at the civic arena in St. Paul. I have decided that this week I am going to plan out what I want in the way of garden plants and flowers this year.
I only had a few plants last year, since we moved into our new house in mid-summer, really past the time when I could put plants in the ground and successfully gather a harvest.
I am hoping to create a raised vegetable garden this year. I would rather construct than dig, and this will allow me to control the soil that I grow in. You never do quite know what lurks around neighborhoods ...
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