Gardening in Fridley, Minnesota
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 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 5, 2011 by The Farmer
On Saturday I picked more tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers and made some salsa and relish. I was watching the three kids by myself, so it was quite the adventure. Luckily they were relatively helpful and everything went smoothly. Garden Salsa I used the recipes in the Ball Blue Book as a guide, but since I [...]
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No Comments.Posted August 30, 2011 by The Farmer
August ended up being something of a busy month. It seemed like we had just gotten back from Mississippi and we were off to South Dakota for 4 days for a memorial service for Caroline’s grandpa. We got back Saturday the 20th at 11:30 pm. Here’s what came out of the garden on Sunday the [...]
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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 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 13, 2011 by The Farmer
HowardDill’s sells premium seeds from prize winning pumpkins of the Atlantic Giant variety for as much as $50 per seed of a 1677lb pumpkin.While that sounds like fun, milk feeding the pumpkins and hiding them under a tarp so they don’t get sunburned does not. So I settled for some pretty cheap non-prize winning Atlantic [...]
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2 Comments.Posted March 14, 2011 by The Farmer
I have finally placed my seed orders for this year. I was planning on not waiting this long, but we were out of town a couple of times and so, here it is March already. We will still be adding a couple of things to this order. My 5 year old is extremely excited for [...]
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