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Welcome to gardeners, growers of veggies, fruits, flowers, and trees!

Welcome backyard hen enthusiasts, worm farmers, beekeepers & composters!

Location: Planet Earth
Members: 142
Latest Activity: 13 hours ago

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If you like to dig in the dirt, plant & prune, grow food & flowers, or sit and watch as someone else does your landscaping, you'll find something here to discuss!

Selected topics, in no particular order:
Moon Phase Widget here. Moon phase topic here.
What's your gardening style?
Frugal gardening.
Backyard Chickens here. here. here. here.
Growing Fruits
Wild Parsnip - It can burn skin.
Why buy locally-grown plants?
Squirrels.
bees.
Cheap gardening.
Buy locally grown plants to prevent blight transmission here.
Grow lots of fruits in a small space, by backyard orchard culture.

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Comment by Annie Thomas on November 4, 2012 at 6:22pm: I am enjoying reading about everyone's gardening projects! I went back to work full-time this fall, and my garden will have to wait until spring. I am glad I can vicariously plant and harvest through your wonderful posts!

Comment by Sentient Biped on November 4, 2012 at 6:12pm: Joan, I'm loving this time of year too. Unusual for me. The planning is great! Also building raised beds. Still time to construct a couple/few more for next Spring.

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Also, looking for seed sources for open pollinated varieties that will best suit this climate. Ones I can save seeds from in the future. Maybe. I think I understand that better than I ever did. Still so much to learn! Excited about some new experiments. Short/cool season melons, bush snow peas. Maybe pushing the envelope with some short season okra.

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What does it take to make me happy?

Those compact spruces are about 4 feet tall. The big leaf maple has about 1/3 of it's leaves remaining. This is my Christmas! Leafmas!

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I found another little linden tree. It's about 8 feet tall, marked down from $39.99 now $8.00. It will need corrective pruning the next couple of years. No central leader. I can do it. I read that linden pollen makes especially good honey. Good root mass. Stout trunk. Planted it today

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 2, 2012 at 12:08am: Good resource for heirloom seeds and instructions.

Grow Your Own Heirlooms

Oh boy, I love this time of year, seed catalogues are coming in, this past summer's garden is tucked away and no more outside chores until April and May. Seed starting begins in Feb-March for me.

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 1, 2012 at 11:55pm: Looks like this might be a good source for "how to" gardening.

Tomato Seed Harvest Crunch Time

"As the operator and founder of the Victory Seed Company, many of the things that I discuss here will center on our seed preservation work and the varieties and products that our company offers. However, unlike other company blogs, it is not intended to primarily sell things. It is a communication tool to keep our gardening friends and supporters informed.

Since I have many personal interests and projects, the topics discussed will be varied. They will range from seed variety work, gardening, farm life, historical agriculture, homesteading, personal food production, self-reliance, and perhaps some occasional soap-boxing."

~ Mike Dunton

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 1, 2012 at 11:38pm: I just ran across this Yellow Potato Onion. Is not not strange, I had never heard of such a thing until you introduced me to the plant. I look forward to eating and sharing next year. Thanks Sentient.

Yellow Potato Onion-Organic

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 1, 2012 at 11:23pm: Sentient, your article about loss of seed diversity is most alarming. Thankfully, you are one who understands and are a good source of information for others. I'm with you, heirloom seeds is the way to go and it can be interesting what we discover. I look forward to planting and harvesting and sharing next year.

Comment by Sentient Biped on November 1, 2012 at 11:18pm: Joan, I think Baker Creek looks pretty interesting. Also some of the other heirloom veggie seed sources. I'm definitely doing research for varieties that should do well in my own microclimate. That's instead of hybrids. It will be more of a test garden this year.

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I'm thinking of planting two varieties of some vegetables, to see what does better. I've picked 2 types of early melon. If I do that, I can't save seeds from them this time around, but it will help me learn what to choose next year.

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If I had not done that with figs, I might have given up on them. The 1st 2 that I picked were never productive. But now I have 5 varieties that are reliably great.

Comment by Steph S. on November 1, 2012 at 10:37pm: Great posts here Joan and Sentient. I just need to catch up.

I love all the pictures. Great article links too.

All sorts of good stuff.