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What blueberries have taught me

  • June 17, 2014
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  • Rory
I spent an afternoon with my brother Troy working on a renovation project at Art House North and we got to talking about farming and what we’ve been learning at…
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Hilling the potatoes

  • June 10, 2014
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  • Rory
There’s a step with gardening potatoes that involves mounding dirt up around the stems of the plants once they reach a certain height. For the life of me, I can’t…
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Checking in with the apple trees

  • June 8, 2014
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  • Rory
It’s been two weeks since we planted our apple trees and now the blossoms are in the process of converting into tiny apples. When we bought the trees, I was advised to…
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Cure for the common slug?

  • June 4, 2014
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I made quite a few improvements this year to my strawberry-growing strategy. I placed them up high in raised beds, mulched them heavily to keep the weeds at bay, and…
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Garden update: fruit blooms

  • June 1, 2014
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May has been a busy month around here. Starting from scratch just a few weeks ago, we’ve tilled, planted, mulched, watered, weeded, then repeated. Seems like something has gone into the…
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Planting a strawberry patch

  • May 31, 2014
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I finished and filled two more raised beds last week and planted 24 strawberry starts. In one bed there is a June-bearing variety called Sparkle which is our favorite tasting…
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