Tag: 100 Mile Diet
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Magic beans growing
Amazing what a few consecutive days of sunshine and heat will do for a garden. Last week I posted photos of my garden and the beans were nothing. The ONE plant that had sprouted looked weak and lonely. On Sunday the new beans exploded out of the ground!
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100 Foot Diet Update
Because the kids are out playing in the tent I set up in the backyard, I have a couple more minutes to share a SECOND blog post with you, yes two in one day!! SO here is a pictorial update on our suburban gardening adventures, or, as I call it, our 100 foot diet. Yes,…
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Wordless Wednesday Garden Boxes Update
Update on our 100 Foot diet… The potatoes are coming along quite nicely. I will indubitably have to add more lawn cuttings around the base of the potato plants in the coming days… And possibly because the weather has been so…
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Wordless Wednesday; Our Garden
Our little garden…
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A Jump Start for my Garden
Yesterday I took my little ones to the Vancouver Olympic Village and visited with Lee Anne from the Mom Paradigm. She has been blogging about her community garden adventures and I wanted to see first hand how her garden compared to my efforts. Perhaps the fact that I grew up on an organic vegetable growing…
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Wordless Wednesday … Baby Beets
The beet goes on…
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Take Two on the Giant Pumpkin Seeds
For whatever reason my giant pumpkin seeds, or should I say, the seeds for my giant pumpkins did not sprout. Thankfully I saw my colleague and fellow gardening enthusiast today who very kindly supplied me with a new set of seeds. As well as new seeds, we also discussed techniques about how to…
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Coquitlam Hosting a Compost Tea Party
Coquitlam is hosting a very different kind of party on Thursday, May 10, 2012. To celebrate International Compost Awareness Week, the City is inviting people to attend a Compost Tea Party. “The event is aimed at teaching people how to feed their plants and soil naturally with compost,” said Verne Kucy, Coquitlam’s Manager of Environmental…
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Giant Pumpkin Seeds Planted
The next thing for the garden will be giant pumpkins. A colleague/friend of mine gave me the seeds from a pumpkin that he grew last year. He tells me that these pumpkins grow to be massive…like 3-4 or 5 feet across. I am very much looking forward to seeing how these monster pumpkins grow.…
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Wordless Wednesday in the Garden
In the garden this morning…