Posted July 9, 2011 by The Farmer
Today was a pretty productive day. Caroline is out of town, and I had her leave my fishing gear in the back of the car when she went to the airport. So this evening I weeded and weeded and weeded.I probably have another 3 hours of weeded to do early next week before I could [...]

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 [...]

Categories: Articles, Fridley Farmer
Tags: Atlantic Giant, beans, bell pepper, corn, cucumbers, glacier tomato, golden bantam, heavyweight II, lettuce, mortgage lifter, north star pepper, peas, purple king, spinach, squash, squirrels, straight eight, sweet banana peppers, sweet corn, sweet million, thomas laxton, tomatoes, waltham butternut, white wonder.
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Posted April 15, 2011 by The Farmer
During a slower time of life and the year each of these topics might have merited a full post of their own and certainly their own headlines. However work is keeping me busy, and it’s busy time in the garden so you get to read a kind of summary of events. Camping Cucumbers As reported [...]

Categories: Fridley Farmer
Tags: Atlantic Giant, cucumber, hardening off, hoop house, lilacs, pruning, rabbit, rabbits, rhubarb, straight eight, white wonder.
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Posted April 13, 2011 by The Farmer
HowardDill’s sells premium seeds from prize winning pumpkins of the Atlantic Giant variety for as much as $50 per seed of a 1677lb pumpkin.While that sounds like fun, milk feeding the pumpkins and hiding them under a tarp so they don’t get sunburned does not. So I settled for some pretty cheap non-prize winning Atlantic [...]
