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Grow Better Veggies: A Pest to Watch Out for This Spring: Leaf Miner Leaf miner is indeed what our chard had last year. All infected leaves must be fed to the chickens; darn. (tags: chard greens pests pestmanagement leafminers) Grow Better Veggies: Pinching Basils – the Key to Success She starts pinching basils [...] My Tiny Plot » Blog Archive » What to Grow in the Shady Bit What grows well in the shady parts of the yard. (tags: shade garden-planning varieties) Grow Better Veggies: Manure Compost as Passive Greenhouse Heating Using boxes of manure compost as passive greenhouse heat (plus compost factory). (tags: greenhouses compost manure) [...] …but Mighty God King [You may safely assume that all links contain swears and off-color humor] a blog that’s primarily about comic books, jokes about bad science fiction and an unhealthy obsession with Rex the Wonder Dog has published a short essay on sustainable agriculture and responsible meat consumption. drivingrex2 My dog did [...] February 2012 Important Update!! Tom Johns, the owner of Territorial Seed, commented on this post (see below) to let us know that as of the 2012 catalog, Territorial is no longer carrying any Seminis products. We confirmed this by emailing Territorial’s customer service and they verified it. Great news! Since it’s apparently politics week [...] So, network issues at work provided my with a day to research various greenhouse options. We’ve had such success with the hoophouses that I’m really fired up to get a real greenhouse going in the spring. My first inspiration came from the Westside Gardener whose site is full of Cascadian goodness. Minus incidentals, this [...] Rare Crowing Hen — $5. I haven’t been able to stop giggling since I ran across this ad. (Reproduced here in case the ad goes away) chickensexfail The Seattle City Council passed an absolutely lovely resolution about local food incentives and planning policies to encourage urban gardening. Full text is here. Waves at Joe working in the city archives! The deal with a resolution is that it doesn’t actually *do* anything, but laying out that these are the values of my [...] Will be figuring out how we want to link out to our kindred-spirit blogs, but for now, here are some I like. Path to Freedom and Urban Homestead The Dervaes family, in Pasadena, has a yard consisting of about 1/5 of an acre, and last year they grew about 3 tons of food. [...] |
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