Gardening in Fridley, Minnesota
Posted April 24, 2012 by The Farmer
I felt like I was in the “If you Give a Mouse a Cookie” book today. Mowing the Lawn Grubbing Trees I went outside to mow the lawn. I realized that there was a big pile of leaves under the lilacs. I wanted to mulch them on the lawn, so I thought I’d better rake [...]
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No Comments.Posted June 2, 2011 by The Farmer
Hardening Off The Easy Way It was my intention to go over the community gardens on Memorial Day, but that was Monday and it’s now Wednesday night as I write this. Why haven’t I gone? Partly I’ve been busy with work, but the main factor is that I need to harden off my plants better. [...]
Categories: Articles, Fridley Farmer
No Comments.Posted May 7, 2011 by The Farmer
As long as it doesn’t rain, we’re getting 12 yards of black dirt delivered tomorrow. It’s actually 25% composted manure, 75% black dirt. We’re getting it from a guy named Rod who we found on Craigslist last year. He doesn’t seem to have a website, but you can usually find his latest pricing and available [...]
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1 Comment.Posted May 4, 2011 by The Farmer
I guess we could call this the lilac harvest. While this isn’t exactly typical gardening blog fare, it is making use of something that is home grown here on the Fridley Farm so I think we’re in safe territory. Some Lilacs Have a Neat Purple Grain Last year when I was pruning the lilacs I [...]
Categories: Fridley Farmer, Projects
No Comments.Posted April 27, 2011 by The Farmer
Sorry for the picture quality today, there must’ve been a smudge on the lens or something. Wild Strawberry Plants from Craigslist! This weekend we came across a posting for free wild strawberry plants. So yesterday we went and dug up a 5×2 foot, very densely populated wild strawberry bed. The lady who gave them to [...]
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1 Comment.Posted April 15, 2011 by The Farmer
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 [...]
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1 Comment.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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