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Winter Squash Growing Great!
Winter squash growing great–right up the tomato cage! Here is a photo from earlier in the summer, when the Tahitian Melon Winter Squash started growing. You can still see the tomato cage as it is...
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Growing Winter Squash
I am having so much fun growing winter squash even though it is taking over my yard. I will definitely be buying Tahitian Melon winter squash again providing that it tastes as good as it grows! Each...
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Better Than Butternut Squash
These Tahitian Melon squash are better than Butternut Squash. I am not talking about better in taste. They are very similar in taste to Butternut Squash, with a beautiful sweet orange flesh. They...
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Tree Roots Growing in Raised Bed
There are tree roots growing into my raised bed where I keep my composting worms. I have mostly emptied the raised bed and you can see the roots above the spade. Last year I had too many worms so I put...
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Saving the Sugar Maple Tree
Saving the sugar maple tree in front of my house brought up questions about how to fertilize a tree. The tree is not as full as it used to be. The picture to the right is from a few years ago when it...
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Too Many Garden Vegetables
Gardeners often have the problem of too many garden vegetables! Sometimes we can’t find neighbors to give the veggies to! They have had enough! Right now I have that problem with tomatoes–there are...
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Composting Worms in the Sun Mar Compost Tumbler
There are composting worms in the Sun Mar compost tumbler! So not only did I get great compost from this tumbler I also got a bunch of red wigglers. I will add them to my worm bins. I have been...
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Feeding Red Wigglers to Garter Snakes
Feeding red wigglers to garter snakes is questionable. I often thought that if you have a snake that it would be great to raise composting worms. You would have a constant food supply but that...
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Tomato Ladder Trellis for Winter Squash
I have this squash that grew on my tomato ladder trellis at the end of the season. See the tan orb on the right side of the picture. I have three pictures in this post to show winter squash growing...
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Making a Homemade Trellis
I want to share with you my plans for making a homemade trellis. I have talked a lot on my blog about my cucumber trellis and my squash taking over the cucumber trellis. I have given a little...
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Planting Daffodil Bulbs
I have been busy planting daffodil bulbs. You might remember my post about thinning daffodil bulbs. After I dug up the crowded bulbs and separated them all out, I had over 300 daffodil bulbs! See the...
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Caterpillar Eating Sage
I have a very interesting case of one caterpillar eating sage. I am growing lettuce and the herb sage in the house for the winter. The lettuce had lots of caterpillars eating it so I put it back...
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Finished Planting Tulip Bulbs
I am so excited. I just finished planting my tulip bulbs. I had a few tulip bulbs left after planting over 100 bulbs. At the beginning of December I was busy planting daffodil bulbs. I had over 300...
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Soybean Looper Moth
A soybean looper moth has emerged from my caterpillar eating sage! See my post on the caterpillar eating sage for the beginning of this story. I checked on the chrysalis almost every day to see when...
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Urban Gardening-Ron Finley-New Year Thoughts
Urban gardening is becoming the in thing to do. Have you ever heard of a “food desert”? A food desert is defined by Wikipedia as ”an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain,...
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Straw Bale Cold Frame
I have built a straw bale cold frame before but we never had such cold weather as this year. We just experienced a “polar vertex” and had one night and one day where the temperature stayed at 0 degrees...
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Folks This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin has written many books including Folks This Ain’t Normal. I learned about Joel Salatin and his farm, Polyface, from my brother-in-law. After he toured the farm he told me all about it and...
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Tahitian Melon Squash and Barbie
I have my Tahitian Melon Squash and Barbie all in the basement. From this picture you can see my great harvest of squash. I just made a Curry Squash soup last night and it is delicious. Tahitian...
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Composting Worms Escaping
The composting worms are escaping! I came downstairs to work on separating the worms by scooping the compost off the top of the hill. I guess my “hill” was getting too small and the worms were...
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White Worms Raspberries
White worms raspberries?? Oh no Are you kidding? This is a “bad news” posting about white worms in raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and other soft fruits including blueberries, cherries, plums,...
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