Out of the Weeds
Turning a weed infested yard into a lush paradise is a big task...one we're tackling one step at a time. You'll hear how we're going about it, what we found that works, and what missteps we'll take along the way.
by JasonL
by JasonL
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Making a Trellis for Beans and Peas
Written Wednesday, August 06 | 0 Comments | Share | 2534 Views
One of the most important things you have to do to grow beans (or peas) successfully is to provide them with proper growing support. There's many options out there but I finally focused on building a trellis out of PVC pipe with string mesh netting. Follow the directions below and you can have your own highly portable trellis.
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Written Wednesday, August 06 | 0 Comments | Share | 2534 Views
One of the most important things you have to do to grow beans (or peas) successfully is to provide them with proper growing support. There's many options out there but I finally focused on building a trellis out of PVC pipe with string mesh netting. Follow the directions below and you can have your own highly portable trellis.
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Making Heavy Duty Tomato Cages
Written Monday, July 07 | 0 Comments | Share | 1456 Views
One of the important decisions you have to make when growing tomatoes is how you want to support them. There's several options but most have significant downsides. With that in mind, I decided to make my own heavy duty cages. They didn't take very long to make, are much studier than store bought ones, and in subsequent years there's no labor involved in using them. Best of all, I made 20 cages for only $80, including the bolt cutters!
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Written Monday, July 07 | 0 Comments | Share | 1456 Views
One of the important decisions you have to make when growing tomatoes is how you want to support them. There's several options but most have significant downsides. With that in mind, I decided to make my own heavy duty cages. They didn't take very long to make, are much studier than store bought ones, and in subsequent years there's no labor involved in using them. Best of all, I made 20 cages for only $80, including the bolt cutters!
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Growing Challenge Update: Vegetables Of Your Labor
Written Monday, July 07 | 0 Comments | Share | 788 Views
After all the hard work you have to expend making a successful vegetable garden grow you want to make sure you make the best of the vegetables that come out of it. Many of my spring / early summer vegetables have been coming along nicely and I thought I'd share some recipes that are simple and really highlight the flavor of the vegetables...there's no sense in taking all that time to grow your own and then cover up the flavors!
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Written Monday, July 07 | 0 Comments | Share | 788 Views
After all the hard work you have to expend making a successful vegetable garden grow you want to make sure you make the best of the vegetables that come out of it. Many of my spring / early summer vegetables have been coming along nicely and I thought I'd share some recipes that are simple and really highlight the flavor of the vegetables...there's no sense in taking all that time to grow your own and then cover up the flavors!
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Growing Challenge Update: The First Harvest
Written Monday, June 02 | 0 Comments | Share | 657 Views
With our spinach, radishes, and lettuce getting ready to pick we finally had our first garden fresh meals!
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Written Monday, June 02 | 0 Comments | Share | 657 Views
With our spinach, radishes, and lettuce getting ready to pick we finally had our first garden fresh meals!
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Reclaiming a Bed That Has Gone to the Weeds
Written Thursday, May 29 | 0 Comments | Share | 1188 Views
One of our flower beds hadn't been touched in a year or so. It was getting pretty weedy and the grass was starting to take it back over. We decided to re-edge it using red "scalloped" bricks and to apply both gardening cloth and mulch to it. These made a dramatic difference in the look of the bed and greatly lowered the energy to maintain it. It's a pretty easy process that I've outlined below.
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Written Thursday, May 29 | 0 Comments | Share | 1188 Views
One of our flower beds hadn't been touched in a year or so. It was getting pretty weedy and the grass was starting to take it back over. We decided to re-edge it using red "scalloped" bricks and to apply both gardening cloth and mulch to it. These made a dramatic difference in the look of the bed and greatly lowered the energy to maintain it. It's a pretty easy process that I've outlined below.
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Growing Challenge Update: They're Growing!
Written Friday, May 23 | 0 Comments | Share | 659 Views
I did enough reading on how to start plants from seeds that I was pretty confident I'd get decent results but it's quite a relief to actually see everything growing! Here's some pictures of what I've got growing.
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Written Friday, May 23 | 0 Comments | Share | 659 Views
I did enough reading on how to start plants from seeds that I was pretty confident I'd get decent results but it's quite a relief to actually see everything growing! Here's some pictures of what I've got growing.
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Installing a Flower Bed Over Grass
Written Monday, May 19 | 2 Comments | Share | 2169 Views
We have about 1/2 acre of grass in our backyard so in order to add some color and beautify the back corner we decided to put in a flower garden. Here's the process of turning a patch of grass into a nice flower bed.
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Written Monday, May 19 | 2 Comments | Share | 2169 Views
We have about 1/2 acre of grass in our backyard so in order to add some color and beautify the back corner we decided to put in a flower garden. Here's the process of turning a patch of grass into a nice flower bed.
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Growing Strawberries at Home
Written Friday, May 16 | 0 Comments | Share | 983 Views
One of my wife's favorite foods is strawberries but since it's normally hard to find good ones in the store we decided to try growing our own. Here's how we did it, and you can too.
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Written Friday, May 16 | 0 Comments | Share | 983 Views
One of my wife's favorite foods is strawberries but since it's normally hard to find good ones in the store we decided to try growing our own. Here's how we did it, and you can too.
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Joining the Growing Challenge
Written Wednesday, May 14 | 0 Comments | Share | 670 Views
Since I finally have a yard of my own for the first time in my life I decided I'd try to grow a vegetable garden. I figured if I was going to do it I'd go all the way so I came up with a long list of vegetables that interested me.
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Written Wednesday, May 14 | 0 Comments | Share | 670 Views
Since I finally have a yard of my own for the first time in my life I decided I'd try to grow a vegetable garden. I figured if I was going to do it I'd go all the way so I came up with a long list of vegetables that interested me.
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Fresh Herbs Year Round with the AeroGarden
Written Monday, May 05 | 0 Comments | Share | 570 Views
Tired of only having fresh herbs during the summer months? Now you can have them year round.
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Written Monday, May 05 | 0 Comments | Share | 570 Views
Tired of only having fresh herbs during the summer months? Now you can have them year round.
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