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Posted July 9, 2011 by

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 [...]

Green little tomatoes

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Posted May 24, 2011 by

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 [...]

Future Farmers?

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Posted April 15, 2011 by

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 [...]

A temporary hoop house

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Posted April 13, 2011 by

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 [...]

Atlantic Giant Pumpkin Seedlings

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