Garden Update
With the new barn construction taking most of our attention this summer, we didn’t have as much time to devote to the garden. But we still managed to get our…
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Strawberries
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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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Training the strawberries
This year is our second attempt at growing strawberries and we’ve made some modifications. We planted them into a raised bed with fresh compost, mulched heavily with wood chips, and…
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Cure for the common slug?
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
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
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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