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Planting a No-Till Garden, Step-by-Step

A few years ago I watched the documentary Back to Eden, which describes how master gardener Paul Gautschi uses a revolutionary but forgotten method to suppress weeds and rebuild soil fertility. If you…

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Gardening

Oops!

A few days ago one of Becca’s friends was visiting and asking a lot of questions about getting a new garden going this summer. Becca told her she would undoubtedly make…

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Gardening

2014 year in review

Becca picks a forward-looking word for each year on her blog. If I had to pick a word for 2014, it would be “ambitious”. I was driven mostly by the long-range…

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Gardening

Fall cleaning

It’s the end of the season for us Zone 4B growers. My faithful standby’s Lisa and Zina, who helped me plant this Spring, joined me for a day of garden…

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Pumpkin patch kids

Tonight was pumpkin carving night. We grew our own pumpkins this year which made the event a bit more special. The pumpkin patch was planted on a whim, in a…

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That’s a wrap

It’s official: the growing season is over. First frost arrived 3 weeks earlier than average as temperatures dropped to 34 degrees overnight last Saturday. I spent the previous afternoon plucking…

Planting a No-Till Garden, Step-by-Step

Oops!

2014 year in review

Fall cleaning

Pumpkin patch kids

That’s a wrap

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