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- the secret to awesome leeks
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- Posted in:
organic_garden - Posted 1 year ago by
raven_albion
I read this tip in Eliot Coleman's Winter Harvest Handbook last winter, and decided to try it out this year. Instead of planting leeks a couple inches deep, and then hilling up around the plants as they get taller over the growing season, he basically pushes a 1-inch-diameter dowel about 9 inches into the ground, drops a plant (with its roots trimmed to 1") into the hole, and moves on...
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- Storm Loss
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- Posted in: apartmentgarden
- Posted 1 year ago by plumtreeblossom
Yesterday a strong and violent storm knocked my largest beefsteak tomato off the plant before it was ripe. I came home from work to find every plant disturbed, and empty pots thrown about the balcony by the wind gusts. The poor pepper plants were nearly killed, as well. We don't often get dramatic weather around here, but when we do, it always catches me off-guard. I'm so sad about this tomato....
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- Insect eggs?
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- Posted in: organic_garden
- Posted 1 year ago by eqfe
Thinning out a newly planted bed, seeded with beet, carrots, parsnips and rutabagas, I notice a great number of small round eggs. The were round, beige, and 1/8 to 3/16 in diameter. My first thought was that they must be cricket, wasp or grasshopper eggs since those were the only large insects that I've seen in the garden. I googled all three, and none of their eggs looked like these...
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- I try to warn people about the dangers of the media narrativ …
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- Posted in: greenparty
- Posted 1 year ago by sonof2ravens
- Mood: annoyed
It is a trap lazy reporters & news readers fall into all the time. It is neither conservative nor liberal as you will soon see. The latest victim? Ron Paul. There are some things greens agree with Paul on. Many we do not. But he is a thoughtful candidate trying to take part in our body politic. Only to be snubbed in favor of Sarah Palin? Who many believe is just illegally using campaign...
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