Posted July 9, 2011 by The Farmer
Today was a pretty productive day. Caroline is out of town, and I had her leave my fishing gear in the back of the car when she went to the airport. So this evening I weeded and weeded and weeded.I probably have another 3 hours of weeded to do early next week before I could [...]

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. [...]

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Tags: apple trees, apples, community garden, grapes, hardening off, lilacs, raspberries, rooting powder, splicing, transplanting.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Categories: Fridley Farmer
Tags: beets, green beans, pumpkin pie, pumpkins, raspberries, spaghetti squash, spinach, squash, summer squash, tomatoes, turnips, zucchini.
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Posted May 13, 2010 by The Farmer
Today is a very exciting day, our first batch of berries arrived! We planted a row of blueberries. Three North Blues and two Chippewas. Two lingonberry plants. Ryan helped plant the raspberries. We got 6 Autumn Britten raspberries plants and 6 Caroline raspberry plants. All in all a very successful evening. Made all the more [...]
