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Small Kitchen Garden Goes Community
This spring I rented a plot at a community garden. It changes everything. -post #1 In early April, snow had just melted from the community garden; no one had even tried to plant peas on St Patrick’s...
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Tilling in the No-Till Garden
This spring I rented a plot at a community garden. It changes everything. -post #2 That gash of exposed soil was the first planting bed in my community garden plot. Digging up the meadow was, perhaps,...
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My Plot at the Union County Community Garden
This one’s not at the community garden. My wife did some prep in the home garden, and I planted three double rows of peas. She erected trellises, and we’ve had at least two rabbit incursions, but...
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As Gardening Season Ends
I started six tomatillo plants from seed and they were very happy in the community garden. I’d never grown them, and was impressed at how prolific the plants were. I harvested mid-summer and canned...
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Taking Down the Vegetable Garden
In mid-October, I harvested about two-and-a-half gallons of fingerling and red-skinned potatoes. I’d left the potatoes in the ground way too long; rodents had tunneled under the tubers and had eaten...
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