Gardening in Fridley, Minnesota
Posted August 18, 2012 by The Farmer
Cleaning Up the Small Garden Both the big garden in the back of the yard, and this small garden are all out of sorts. I have taken on a couple of extra consulting jobs to save a little extra money before school starts, and the garden got the short end of the stick. This morning [...]
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2 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 1, 2011 by The Farmer
Today was a good gardening day so far. I spent a while picking and watering everything in the yard, and I’m headed to the community garden in a little while. Here’s today’s harvest. A bunch of non-cherry tomatoes, even more cherry tomatoes, purple beans, green beans, a single lonely beet, one small carrot, a single [...]
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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 July 20, 2011 by The Farmer
It’s hot hot hot, but then, you knew that. My lettuce is a little bitter about the heat, but everything else is loving it. Good Garden Helpers Despite the heat I got a lot done this week. Mostly that was because I hired two good garden helpers to come help me catch up with the [...]
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1 Comment.Posted September 9, 2010 by The Farmer
I love brown rice, it’s got this nutty flavor and more texture than white rice. It could almost be a meal by itself. In this meal though, we piled chicken and vegetables on top, beans and pickles on the side. Brown Rice with Chicken and Squash Cook the brown rice per the directions on the [...]
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No Comments.Posted August 9, 2010 by The Farmer
Like I said in the last post, the garden has been working overtime since late July. Here are some of the happenings we have been enjoying: Aside: Just for fun this post is scheduled to go live at 8/9/10 11:12 (using American dates). Tomatoes I have more than 25 tomato plants in 5 or 6 [...]
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1 Comment.Posted August 8, 2010 by The Farmer
It feels like I’m back from the dead. After a new job, a 3 day bike ride, a 77.5 hour work week to make up for the 3 day bike ride and a mostly normal week to catch up on family life and sleep and I’m finally back in the blogging saddle. What a couple [...]
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No Comments.Posted July 26, 2010 by The Farmer
Here’s a real life example of an basic Brazilian lunch, even though we had it for dinner this time around. This is something pretty typical, which I would have eaten on any given day with my host family as an exchange student or at meals with church members when I was a missionary. The only [...]
Categories: Fridley Farmer, Something Interesting
1 Comment.Posted July 23, 2010 by The Farmer
Squash time again! The garden has been producing beans and peas like crazy. We have been able to keep up so far, but posting here has lagged with the work I’ve been doing. This post comes courtesy of a Denver to Salt Lake City flight. I’m headed out to Utah to meet my new boss, [...]
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