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Autumn Sown Broad Beans (Fava Beans)

Posted on: November 4th, 2011 by
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Autumn Sown Broad Beans (Fava Beans). Who knows… maybe we can come up with a use for these… maybe with a good Chianti…

How to set up a School Garden

Posted on: November 4th, 2011 by
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How to set up a School Garden. One of the things that Terri and I have talked about is setting up Square Food Garden boxes for some of the schools.  This is a great article on just that subject.

Apple Pollination Groups – Choosing Compatible Trees

Posted on: November 4th, 2011 by
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  This is a great article on Apples Apple Pollination Groups – Choosing Compatible Trees.

Building a Drip Irrigation System for a Square Foot Garden | My Square Foot Garden

Posted on: October 29th, 2011 by
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Building a Drip Irrigation System for a Square Foot Garden | My Square Foot Garden. Great article on building a drip system

Spring Gardening Checklist: repost

Posted on: October 29th, 2011 by
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The link below points to a checklist (That I have quoted below) for square foot gardening that came from mysquarefootgarden.com Emily’s site is a wonderful resource and is well worth taking a look at.  I have only quoted the article below as a convenience to you (the reader), please visit her site to see the [Read the full story ...]

Boxes on the ground

Posted on: October 23rd, 2011 by
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We were able to get two boxes on fabric and filled on Friday the 21st. First, I scraped any living weed/grass/top layer of dirt off of the area I was preparing. I then tried to level the box area so that the boxes would sit as close to level as was practical. (Side note, don’t [Read the full story ...]

How does our garden grow

Posted on: October 18th, 2011 by
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Starting Out Today we begin putting our first two boxes in the ground. I will drop some articles in here later covering how we are gardening, and why we are doing it the way we are. I just wanted to get something here so we would have an example to work with. Greg

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