Gardening

How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden

5 May 2011

How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden.
If you are as concerned about the food supply as a lot of people are, then growing some of your own is a smart plan.
Now if you are in an apartment that can be a bit of a problem. There is no space for a garden, or is [...]

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Getting Ready for Planting

20 April 2011

Its beginning to get warm and there is not much time left for ordering seeds and getting them spouting in time for growing season. There are actually several useful online tools that can help you.
The first is figure out what zone you are in, that is the USDA plant hardiness zone. It gives you an [...]

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Walk Your Property: Which Way Does the Wind Blow?

9 March 2011

The wind is another major energy input into your home and property. Now you may go thinking that wind power is too big and expensive and noisy and not allowed by the HOA and all that. This is not about that, directly.
We have some friends whose house whistles when the wind blows, a lot, it’s [...]

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Walking your Property: Where does the Water go?

8 March 2011

My dad lives in a rather hilly neighborhood and there was this one corner that was always a bit mushy. At the time I complained a lot about it because it was a real pain to mow. The grass was always lush and much higher then anywhere else on the property.
Now I realize that would [...]

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Walking Your Property: Let the Sunshine In

7 March 2011

Gardening is something that is going to become pretty important soon. It is still very early in the year and you probably haven’t started planting yet, and now is a good time to start to get to know your property a bit better. Go outside and walk around your property and really look at it. [...]

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A Couple of Books on Gardening

3 March 2011

If you are looking at food prices and wondering about how you are going to pay for it all, you may be considering a garden. That is a good thing. Growing your own food means more freedom for you and your family.
One of the best for a starting gardener is Square Foot Gardening. Instead of [...]

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Are Seed Banks Worth the Money?

2 March 2011

There is a global seed bank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault in the arctic, which is good for the planet but rough for the individual to go to. You should have one for yourself.
 
Those seed banks that you can buy on the internet, which contain a large gardens worth of seeds packed for long term storage, are not a [...]

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Permaculture Greening the Desert

9 February 2011

From YouTube

An amazing achievement.

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Getting Ready For Gardening

7 January 2011

After hearing about Venezuela I am looking up more information on gardening.
The last average frost date in Denver is May 15th. Long germinating plants take 10 weeks to get ready to put in the ground. That means we need to have seeds in pots by the third week in March.
I know we’ll be getting seed [...]

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Preparing for Frost Season

13 October 2010

It is getting late in the season and chances are increasing that Jack Frost will be biting out gardens and our homes. It is time to get ready. This is not a winterizing list so there are other things to do for that.
These are things that you need to do the day of a frost [...]

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