Category: Gardening

Feb 15 2009

DIY Seedling Pots

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Beth passed on a great article from Green Daily about DIY seedling pots. I love the idea of making little seedling pots out of newspaper. Then when it comes time...

Jan 11 2009

Gardening

Our rosemary plant!

by Jennifer

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A few weeks back we visited the Round Rock Gardens, which turned out to be a pretty neat nursery. We met some people who knew a ton about gardening, and...

Jan 09 2009

Gardening

Spring Garden Plans!

by Jennifer

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I am SO excited to have my garden plan for the spring season finally written up for everyone to see. I worked out how much space each plant needs, and...

Dec 29 2008

Gardening

The last day of the fall garden

by Jennifer

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After I planned out our garden for the spring, I realized that we are going to be able to start planting some vegetables in the next few weeks. Because of...

Dec 03 2008

Gardening

The vegetables are still growing!

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The plants have survived into December! A few of the bell pepper plants look close to death, but the rest are doing really well. Here are a few of the...

Nov 30 2008

Gardening

Fresh Lettuce!

by Jennifer

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For our salad for Thanksgiving dinner, I cut some lettuce from the garden. I even found some caterpillars on it (yes, I washed them off)! Now I know what was...

Nov 27 2008

Gardening

Onions and Garlic

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Yesterday I decided to pull out an onion and a garlic bulb to see how they were doing. They aren’t ready yet! The garlic has formed a bulb but it...

Nov 05 2008

Gardening

I have tomatoes!!!

by Jennifer

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The flowers on the tomato plants have fallen off and left little tomatoes! Yay! I wonder how long until they grow and are ripe…. The onions and garlic look great!...

Oct 26 2008

Gardening

Rose Bushes

by Jennifer

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I’ve been wondering for a while what is going on with my rose bushes out front. The last owner of the house planted them just before putting the house on...

Oct 26 2008

Gardening

So that’s why the lettuce died!

by Jennifer

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I read some in a book that Brian got for me from the Round Rock Library, “Rodale’s Vegetable Garden Problem Solver” (which by the way, is an awesome book), about...