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Friday Foto Montage
tomato trellis teepee cucumber and tomato trellises garden path corn next to the bean dome aerial view french climbing beans work their way to the rooster purple cone flower Matt’s wild cherry toamtoes
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In Bloom: Crown of Thorns
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What can I still plant?
The end of June is just around the corner and you are wondering if it is too late to plant. This depends on where you live. If you live in the Northwest, your season is just getting started. If you live in the Southeast, your growing season is well underway and will just keep on going. Here in downtown Raleigh, NC, I use the weather station “Raleigh NCSU” to determine the length of my growing season. The average first frost…
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The importance of interplanting and biodiversity in the vegetable garden
Companion planting, or interplanting is the practice of growing crops together so that one or both may be benefited by the presence of the other or planting crops together that at the very least won’t commit unspeakable crimes on each other. Conventional home garden methods are to plant crops in orderly blocks or rows, which makes navigation and harvesting much simpler. Here’s the problem, when you don’t interplant, your rows are essentially a buffet for whatever pest or disease takes…
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Friday Freak Show
Friday morning, and the boys are still in their beds. There’s a five hour countdown until the appraiser comes, and from what we know, there’s a 50-50 chance he will actually come inside the house. We aren’t moving – just refinancing, hopefully. On the 50% chance he does, I painted the master bath. What’s even more amazing than the fact that I waited five years to paint, is that I still liked the color of paint I picked out. This…
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In Bloom: Cucumber
I wish I could tell you the exact cultivar, but I planted three or four different kinds and didn’t remember to label them!
