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Saving Seeds

January 3, 2011 By mike Leave a Comment

Saving Seeds in the Garden

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Saving Seeds

Now that we have been harvesting our crops, a number of people have asked about seed saving. Today I got a a copy of a new publication on seed saving. Although it is designed for teachers with school gardens, there is a bounty of really useful information included for everyone.

I have loaded the book onto our site, and you can read it by clicking this link: A Handful of Seeds – SEED STUDY AND SEED SAVING FOR EDUCATORS, by Tina Poles, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. If you would like to save a copy to your computer, right-click the link and select ‘save as…’ from the pop-up menu.

As I said, this is meant for use in schools, but you will find everything from basic botany, parts of flowers named and explained, what (and why) are there fruits, essays on our major food crops and our food pioneers.

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Lots of Recipes for your Organic Produce

January 8, 2010 By mike Leave a Comment

I found a nice gardening blog where the recipes are all collected under one heading, and the recipes sound good. Check out the ‘Pink Thumbs’ blog site. Anita, the author, says, “I try to use everything and make new recipes from everything I harvest.” Her favorites include: chicken corn chowder, Salsa, Lime Basil sorbet, Zucchini flowers stuffed with cheese, and Eggplant stack

Filed Under: Fresh Organic Produce, Gardening, How-To Articles Tagged With: garden recipes

Invasive Plant On-Line Resources

January 3, 2010 By mike Leave a Comment

Here is a web site I found that has the most comprehensive list of invasive plant resources around. It has a boatload of information on a wide range of subjects listed by state, region, many other criteria. Their website says it best…

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Web links to research, data and ways to stop invasives

Several groups are working to stop the threat of non-native invasive species. Federal and state agencies, educational institutions and community organizations are working with each other. You can also find data, research and alternatives to planting invasives. You can search our collection of links by topic or by location. Our thanks to Saint Louis University doctoral student Keefe Reuther for his work on researching, compling and verifying the data in this directory.

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Filed Under: Gardening, Reviews Tagged With: Integrated Pest Management, invasive plants

New Blackberry and Raspberry pages

October 8, 2009 By mike Leave a Comment

I have added two new pages to my web site on growing Blackberries and growing Raspberries. Check them out if you have any interest in growing your own berries at home. Both of these berries, as well as most garden crops, do best with even moisture. A drip garden irrigation system in combination with raised beds and a covering of mulch provides the perfect conditions for growing berries.

Just a note, since berries propagate by underground runners, we have decided not to allow them in the community gardens.

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Vegetable Garden Design

July 2, 2009 By mike Leave a Comment

Vegetable Garden Design.

Here is a quick review of a piece of software I use and recommend. It is called GrowVeg, and it is an on-line, light-weight Java application that runs in your browser – you don’t even have to load any software.

You start by setting your location and climate zone, and giving a name to your garden(s).

GrowVeg provides a drag-and-drop interface that lets you first design your garden area, then drag crops to your garden lay-out and stretch the rows out to fit. When you are done, it prints planting charts with dates for starting, setting out and harvesting each crop, number of plants needed, and more.

Successive seasons are planned starting with a copy of you garden. As you add new crops to the garden, it reminds you to practice crop rotation.

Go to Vegetable Garden Design for the complete review.

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