Gardening in Fridley, Minnesota
Posted May 14, 2012 by The Farmer
I was gone last week at a conference for work, and I feel like the garden is getting away from me! There is weeding, thinning, planting and other work to do as soon as possible. It’s going to be a busy couple of weeks here. Horseradish Root I love horseradish sauce on my meat sandwiches, [...]
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No Comments.Posted May 1, 2012 by The Farmer
Our cherry tree is in full bloom with lots of pretty white flowers. With any luck we’ll get some cherries this year already. Does anyone have recommendations for cherry tree netting? Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Caroline made Strawberry Rhubarb pie Sunday night with rhubarb from our garden, and strawberries from the store. I didn’t know you [...]
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No 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 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 [...]
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No Comments.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 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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