Gardening in Fridley, Minnesota
Posted April 10, 2012 by The Farmer
Last night it got down to 29 degrees F and stayed there from about 1AM till the sun came up. I know because I was up working until 4, and I kept looking at the weather station my wife got me for Christmas. As I was reading through the blogs I follow yesterday evening, Mary [...]
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No Comments.Posted April 7, 2012 by The Farmer
Bachman’s got their cherry trees in this week, and today I went and bought a North Star cherry tree. We picked the North Star because it’s self pollinating, hardy and it’s on the smaller side with a max hight of 10-15 feet. The cherries are sour, or pie, cherries, dark red and less than an [...]
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No Comments.Posted April 7, 2012 by The Farmer
I did it! I started planting. I put in the peas, onions, carrots, spinach, lettuce, corn and beets. I put them in on Wednesday (the 4th) but I just haven’t had a chance to write it up. Calvin, my almost 4-year-old was my helper buddy. He was very deliberate with planting, and put the seeds [...]
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No Comments.Posted September 16, 2011 by The Farmer
Last night was supposed to get down to 30 degrees between midnight and 8 AM. After debating covering plants and crossing my fingers, I decided instead to harvest everything I could. Between a business trip last Wednesday and Saturday, and the sudden need to harvest everything to save it from the freeze, there was a [...]
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1 Comment.Posted September 12, 2011 by The Farmer
I love Pickled Peppers, especially when they’re hot. Yesterday I made a single jar of mixed peppers. I mixed Banana Peppers, Serrano Peppers and Pretty Purple Peppers. I decided to mix them up so that a) the banana peppers would be more interesting and b) the serranos are a bit hotter than I like to [...]
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No Comments.Posted August 16, 2011 by The Farmer
Harvest Update It’s finally starting to be harvest time. We’ve had little bits trickling in, but today we actually had enough to get really excited! Peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and beans are all producing nicely. Mostly it’s sweet million cherry tomatoes, but there were a few glacier tomatoes too. The cucumbers seem to have appeared out [...]
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1 Comment.Posted June 2, 2011 by The Farmer
Hardening Off The Easy Way It was my intention to go over the community gardens on Memorial Day, but that was Monday and it’s now Wednesday night as I write this. Why haven’t I gone? Partly I’ve been busy with work, but the main factor is that I need to harden off my plants better. [...]
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No Comments.Posted May 26, 2011 by The Farmer
After our blueberries got attacked by bunnies last year, we had to figure out something new for the front yard garden. The raspberries were doing so well in the back yard that we opted for more brambles — blackberries this time. We also ordered 50 more strawberry plants to replace some that aren’t coming back [...]
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5 Comments.Posted May 26, 2011 by The Farmer
On wednesday we started the gardening day by planting Ryan’s garden. He wanted watermelon more than just about anything, and so we planted 4 seeds of [planlink p=74 title='Moon and Stars'] watermelon. We had started some of these inside, but they got too much water (oops.) and died. His second most desired plant was corn, [...]
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No Comments.Posted May 24, 2011 by The Farmer
We still have a long ways to go, but the Fridley Farm is finally getting planted. Last night we managed to plant the beans. Some of the black dirt I added this year went to making garden strips along much of our fenced in back yard. We planted up close to the fence, and on [...]
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