Gardening in Fridley, Minnesota
Posted May 16, 2012 by The Farmer
Bagging Apples After discovering the red banded leaf rollers in our apple trees, Caroline and I when and picked as many rolled up leaves as we could, and threw them away. Then we bagged the apple buds. There are lots of bagging options out there from traditional Japanese waxed paper, to paper lunch sacks to [...]
Categories: Fridley Farmer
No Comments.Posted April 21, 2012 by The Farmer
Yesterday evening some good friends of ours brought by 4 peony plants. My wife grew up with peonies in her yard and loves them. I mentioned this to our friends last fall, and she offered to share them with us this spring before they awoke. True to her word she remembered and brought them by! [...]
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2 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 March 14, 2011 by The Farmer
I have finally placed my seed orders for this year. I was planning on not waiting this long, but we were out of town a couple of times and so, here it is March already. We will still be adding a couple of things to this order. My 5 year old is extremely excited for [...]
Categories: Fridley Farmer, Something Interesting
2 Comments.Posted June 5, 2010 by The Farmer
The two grape plants we put in a few weeks ago are doing quite well. They’re holding on to the fence nice and tightly, unlike the pole beans which are holding on to everything except the poles they’re suppose to climb. One of the grape plants (the Valiant) has a couple of bunches of tiny [...]
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