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Archive for the ‘Grow Your Garden’ CategoryOh, Julia Child, you dear pink tomato. Your blushing beauty covers your spicy inside, tempting gardeners for decades. Cherokee Chocolate, dark enchantress of the bunch. That Christmas colored skin of yours yields to a dark juicy flesh, dripping with sunlight transformed to sweetness. Then there’s you, Rutgers. Your pleats, your bulbous inundations, inspire a thousand delicious thoughts.
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August 25th, 2010 | Tags: heirlooms, julia child, tomatoes | Category: Cooking, Gardening, Grow Your Garden, Local Food, What's Growing |
 | 5 comments Summer is running away with my sanity, I think. I still haven’t recovered from waking every day at dawn on the canoe trip, so I’m lacking sleep. There are so many events, activities, plans, and parties that I can barely keep up with myself. In fact, I’m writing this post on OSU campus in a short break [...] |July 22nd, 2010 | Tags: camp, chickens, market, tomatos | Category: City Chickens, Cooking, Events, Family, Grow Your Garden, Kids Cook |
| 2 comments Now that you’ve decided what to plant and where to plant, it’s time to build your beds! The most basic technique for creating a garden bed is double digging. As the name implies, double dug beds are carefully turned with a garden shovel once over the whole surface. Some peat moss and/or compost can be sprinkled on [...] |March 31st, 2010 | Tags: double dug, Grow Your Garden, raised beds | Category: Gardening, Grow Your Garden |
| 11 comments There are oodles of books about starting seeds from people far more qualified than me to be dispensing advice. If you really want to know everything, I suggest searching out references at your local library. What we do here is a casual process guided mostly by the backs of the seed packets and our own yearning to [...] |March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: columbus ohio, Grow Your Garden, seed starting | Category: Gardening, Grow Your Garden, With Kids |
| One comment Location is the next consideration for gardens after motivation and plant selection. The ideal location will have 6 – 8 hours of sunlight a day, access to rain barrel or hose water, and convenience to the kitchen. In less than ideal locations or apartment dwellings, look for sunny spots where you can locate movable containers. To choose [...]  |
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