Garden plans

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Despite most people on my Facebook feed complaining about snow, hail, or overall just cold weather, we have had gorgeous weather up here. We had a few days of really heavy rain but otherwise lots and lots of sunshine and warm weather. We were out gardening in t-shirts most of today.

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A New Year in the Garden

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Another gardening season is almost upon us! I am excited for changes and trying new things this year. We have been getting our beds ready since mid-February, hoping to have everything ready to plant as the weather warms up. We got a whole bunch of really cheap horse manure and spread it in most of …

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Garden stuff

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It’s surprisingly hard to blog with no camera! We’re taking them in this week and hoping to have them fixed asap. We only have a three-year-old iPhone that has very little battery power. I managed to get a few pictures of our garden progress earlier though, before our iPhone died.

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2012 Garden Plans

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Well, it’s spring again and we have started full force in the gardening for this year. Time to attempt to write in the blog more again.

I planted some seeds in February but most of them perished. Even in a nice warm room by a super sunny window under a little fan, they were …

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How does your garden grow?

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Ours doesn’t this year, not really. We’ve had so much else to do: chickens, fruit trees, painting, etc. that the annual vegetable garden kind of fell low on the priority list. I planted some cold weather veggies (spinach, lettuce, peas, and a few others), and the slugs gobbled them all up as fast as they …

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Potatoes

Potatoes

We love potatoes, and growing potatoes is so easy. It’s something I have done every year the last few years, and we always run out by October or November. So I ordered a lot this year. I ended up ordering from Eagle Creek Farms because they sell Green Mountain potatoes, a variety I’ve …

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