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 April 19, 2012 by The Farmer
The packages say to plant tomatoes and peppers indoors 6 weeks before the last frost date. Fridley’s average last frost date is about May 21st, so I’m late this year. Better late than never though, and I’m happy to say that my tomatoes and peppers are finally planted. They’ll have about 4.5 weeks inside before [...]
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No Comments.Posted April 7, 2012 by The Farmer
I did it! I started planting. I put in the peas, onions, carrots, spinach, lettuce, corn and beets. I put them in on Wednesday (the 4th) but I just haven’t had a chance to write it up. Calvin, my almost 4-year-old was my helper buddy. He was very deliberate with planting, and put the seeds [...]
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No Comments.Posted March 14, 2012 by The Farmer
Happily, my garden orders will only be about $100 this year compared to $200 + dirt money we spent last year and the year before. The garden will be a little bit smaller which partly accounts for the decreased cost. The vine borers were so bad with the pumpkins last year that I’m not going [...]
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No Comments.Posted July 4, 2011 by The Farmer
Long overdue, a garden status update! I have been doing more working than blogging, and more fishing than gardening, but the plants have been doing pretty well overall. Stuff We’ve Been Eating We have been eating as much lettuce and spinach as we can and as many strawberries as have been ripe. The berries next [...]
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No 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 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 [...]
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4 Comments.Posted April 9, 2010 by The Farmer
The first sprouts of the year are here! At least the lettuce, cauliflower and broccoli have sprouted. I don’t see any tomatoes, peppers or eggplants yet. Outside the apple trees are putting out leaves too.
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