Gardening in Fridley, Minnesota
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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No Comments.Posted May 29, 2010 by The Farmer
Dead Tomatoes Despite my excitement about gardening, it turns out I’m still a novice. In fact, I killed off most of the rest of our seedling tomato plants. I had been growing them in the basement under lights, and brought them outside to harden off. Unfortunately I left the lid over the plants while I [...]
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3 Comments.Posted March 25, 2010 by The Farmer
I just found out that Fridley has garden plots available for rent. If you’re in Fridley they’re just $28/year, and the till them for you! They also include easy water access, trash bins and porta-pottys. Garden plots are available to request starting two days ago (March 23) and I assume till they run out. http://www.ci.fridley.mn.us/community-gardens [...]
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2 Comments.Posted March 23, 2010 by The Farmer
At some point the previous owners of our house had a garden. We are expanding it from 12×25 feet to 25×25 feet. I was going to rent a rototiller to break it all up, then I realized that the new garden area has good growing grass on it and that I could use that grass [...]
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1 Comment.Posted March 22, 2010 by The Farmer
Growing up, I always thought that if you planted the seeds of a tomato, you would grow the same kind of tomato plant. It turns out that that’s not always the case. The seeds in a fruit or vegetable usually have the genes of a mother and father plant. Whatever type of plant polinated the [...]
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2 Comments.Posted March 22, 2010 by The Farmer
What’s the difference between these two images? If you said “Why, it’s the same image, the first one is just zoomed in a little bit!”, then you’d be right. So why did I insult your intelligence with such an obvious question? Because Burpee is using the same image both for chard and for rhubarb! And [...]
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No Comments.Posted March 22, 2010 by The Farmer
Here’s our final garden/yard order list for the year. So far we’re at $290 plus some shipping in plants and seeds alone. $133 of that are one time costs — plants that should keep growing year after year (the blueberries, strawberries, grapes, lingonberries and rhubarb). Price: $290.58 Planting Date Company Item Number $2.25 3/26/2010 Totally [...]
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No Comments.Posted March 22, 2010 by The Farmer
Here’s our gardening calendar for this summer! It might be useful if you want to accidentally stop by when tomatoes are the ripest, or if you’re trying to avoid zucchinni or peas. Fridley, Minnesota Gardening Calendar All of the plantings and transplanting should be on there now, and I’ll add more harvest/picking dates as I [...]
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No Comments.Posted March 22, 2010 by The Farmer
I will be re-posting all my gardening stuff here instead of on my family blog. For those of you who have seen it, sorry about the couple of repeat posts as I move the content over! One of the reasons we really wanted a house was so that we could have a garden. This year [...]
Categories: Fridley Farmer, Projects
No Comments.Posted March 22, 2010 by The Farmer
Welcome to a new section of this website called the Fridley Farmer! I will be writing about my garden work and experiences in Fridley, Minnesota. While I like flowers just fine, I love growing food much more, so for now that’s where my focus will be. You can access all of my Fridley Farmer posts [...]
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