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Two flowers showed up in a garden
May Dreams Gardens - 06/18/13 - 3 hours 53 min ago
Rising up above the foliage of the late blooming flowers of the August Dreams Garden border, two flowers showed up in the garden. The two blooms of Dense Blazing Star, Liatris spicata, look as though they are advance scouts, checking out the garden to see if it is safe to bloom here. "What do you ...
Homemade Ranch
Shawn Ann's Home and Garden - 06/18/13 - 7 hours 23 min ago
Since starting our real food diet I have only attempted to make one dressing, an Olive Oil and vinegar dressing full of herbs from the garden. Tonight I decided to try making ranch for the first time. None of my kids have been very thrilled with the Oil and Vinegar dressing, although they do eat...
Recipe: Lemony Tuna and Artichoke Picnic Sandwiches with Fresh Basil (and...
In My Kitchen Garden - 06/18/13 - 7 hours 54 min ago
These Lemony Tuna and Artichoke Cooler-Pressed Sandwiches are my new favorite lunchand they aren't just for picnics. Tuna packed in olive oil is combined with marinated artichoke hearts, lemon, and fresh basil on crusty baguettes for a scrumptious, no mayonnaise twist on tuna sandwiches. They...
Cabbage Looking Good
From Seed to Scrumptious - 06/18/13 - 8 hours 54 min ago
I had planted four cabbage plants in a bed, then surrounded them with onion starts. Wondering if the onions might ward off evil spirits and cabbage moths. One of the cabbage had his top eaten open, probably from voles. Another one had some rot, so it ...
Bellis perennis
Alison's Garden - 06/18/13 - 8 hours 54 min ago
Whilst gardening for one of my clients the other day she brought me out a cup of tea & a bickie (yes, I have lovely clients!) and on the tray was a little vase of daisy’s (Bellis perennis). I chuckled whilst she was describing how every time, before the lawn is mown she comes running out to...
The Chick's First Day Out
GrafixMuse\'s Garden Spot - 06/18/13 - 9 hours 54 min ago
The chicks are 3 weeks old and their first feathers have grown in on their wings and tail. Fuzz is now being replaced with feathers on their backs. They are looking less like chicks and more like mini-chickens now. Chicks usually feather out at 5-weeks depending on their breed and temperature. We...
Stormy Weather
From Seed to Scrumptious - 06/18/13 - 13 hours 24 min ago
Rain, rain, and still more rain. And sometimes too much wind. Certainly too much for these two trees that caused trouble in our neighborhood yesterday.Normandy Manor entrance blocked, June 17th, 2013But a reason for neighbors to...
Perfect Growing Conditions
Down on the Allotment - 06/18/13 - 13 hours 54 min ago
I was researching how to grow my new Japanese Horseradish (Wasabi) plant and did some research online. Growing conditions are similar to that of watercress, ie in shaded running water by a stream. The best I came up with here is putting the pot in a bucket under a dripping tap on a...
Protecting my Strawberries
Mark\'s Veg Plot - 06/18/13 - 15 hours 53 min ago
My Strawberry plants have lots of flowers now, and the fruits are beginning to set, so I'm hoping for a much bigger crop than I had last year. [Wow, I might get a whole one pound this time!] These fruits are only tiny now, but I know that once they get going they ripen pretty...
Red on red by Elizabeth Licata
Garden Rant - 06/18/13 - 17 hours 24 min ago
Interesting how some years are perfect for roses. That is what Im hearing about 2013. We had a normal winter, with no premature heat wave, and were having a fairly wet late spring. That equals rose success, apparently. Here (above) is a red climber that came with the house. (There is some clematis ...
Chicks Move to the Coop
GrafixMuse\'s Garden Spot - 06/18/13 - 17 hours 54 min ago
The chicks enjoyed some sunny days in their new pen last week while we worked on the final details on their new home. The coop still needs roofing shingles (donated by my father ~ Thanks Dad!) and another coat of paint, but the rest was completed, secured, and and ready for the chicks to move in....
Italian island jail hosts high-end vineyard
City Farmer News - 06/18/13 - 17 hours 54 min ago
Francesco Papa, a prisoner on penal colony, is pictured on winemaker Marquise Lamberto Frescobaldi’s vineyard in Gorgona island. Gorgona, the smallest of the Tuscan archipelago that also includes Elba, where Napoleon was incarcerated, is home to a project to rehabilitate hardened criminals...
Leaving The Land: Chinas Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million from Farms...
City Farmer News - 06/18/13 - 17 hours 54 min ago
Chongqing, one of the fastest-growing and biggest cities on earth, with a population of 29 million. The old buildings under the high-rises are destined for demolition in the near future. Photo by Justin Jin. See slideshow here. Almost every province has large-scale programs to move farmers into...
Its Tart!
Chiot's Run - 06/18/13 - 21 hours 24 min ago
Yesterday, Mr Chiots and I picked sour cherries at my mom’s house. She planted new trees a few years ago after her old one in the back blew over in a storm. We picked most of them, totaling about a pound. I whipped up a batch of my grandma’s famous pie crust and made a slab pie. Mr...
Irises Rule: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2013
Cold Climate Gardening - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
June has been rainy and on the cool side this year. I think that has contributed to a paucity of blooms. Or, it could be that the gardens at the new house are just a bit behind the gardens at our former house. Or maybe both. By mid-June, I am accustomed to seeing peonies, poppies, and...
June 17, 2013 - Plum Disappointed
Annie's Kitchen Garden - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
We have a flowering plum tree in our front yard. I'd say it's 15-20 years old now, and it has never fruited. It's not supposed to. But this year we have plums! They are very small, they look rather like Bing cherries. I happened to notice them today, so I plucked one...
Harvest Monday June 18, 2013
Charm City Balcony Garden - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
I can't believe that it is already mid-June! How time flies. Everything has been growing super fast both on the balcony and in the community garden. I've been harvesting mostly greens - kale, mizuna, and broccoli leaf. I'm trying to find different ways to eat the greens and been having fun playing...
Grow a Farmer Nova Scotia Farm Tour
Broadfork Farm - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
Last Monday, Lucia from ACORN organized a farm tour of two wonderful and inspiring (and very different) farms. Grow a Farmer apprentices from our farm, Windy Hill Farm, and Taproot Farms took part in the tour as well as other aspiring and new farmers. Bryan and I take our professional development...
Tomato Habits
Down on the Allotment - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
Tomatoes like to grow in different ways. Some varieties like this Tumbler tomato like to grow in a bush. These Determinate plants send out lots and lots of side shoots and produce fruit from many different trusses. Sometimes with the best will in the world I can't get my...
Sandria's Garden
Three Dogs in a Garden - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
Columbine"You should come and see this garden on my postal route", my hubby said to me one day when we met for lunch, "I think you'd like it." I thought of the neighbourhood of primarily small, post-war houses that I had only ever seen in the depth of winter and tried to imagine which...
June 17, 2013 - Harvest Monday
Annie's Kitchen Garden - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
6/10 - Raspberries are being picked about every other day now, and we have been enjoying them for breakfasts as well as on angelfood cake slices with a dollop of whipped cream. The second head of broccoli was harvested and used in my stir fry (I didn't make Mr. Granny eat it, all the more for ...
Problems with the Gaillardia
Mark\'s Veg Plot - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
My Gaillardia plant is looking sick. Although it is putting up flower stems now, many of the leaves have gone brown. It looks almost as if the leaves are burned. I know we have had plenty of bright sunshine recently, and more-or-less constant strong breezes, but I don't think it...
Harvest Monday 6/17/13
Shawn Ann's Home and Garden - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
It has been a good harvest week. I bet the harvests are really picking up for everyone, so join in the fun at Daphne's Dandelions for Harvest Monday!First carrots of the season and I am happy to say they were good without bitterness! Lesson learned, keep the shoulders good and covered to...
Harvest Monday: June 17, 2013
GrafixMuse\'s Garden Spot - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
Each Monday, Daphnes Dandelions hosts Harvest Monday where everyone can share links to their harvest for the week. Its fun to see what everyone is gathering from his or her gardens in different areas.Spring greens rein in the garden spot again this week. We've been enjoying a lot of fresh...
June Harvests Heating Up
Our Happy Acres - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
It seems like we’ve had a lot of new items ready for harvest in the last week or so. At least, new for 2013 items! The first blueberries were a welcome sight indeed. The bushes are loaded this year, and if early harvests are any indication it will be a banner year for them. We got two quarts...
When Urban Agriculture Is at Odds with Sustainability
City Farmer News - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
Space that could be used for people to live near high-frequency transit should not be permanently preserved for agriculture, says Zane Selvans. Photo by Flat Iron Bike. Theres a proposal on the table in Boulder, Colorado, to preserve 25 acres in the heart of the city for agricultural purposes in...
In New Orleans, a Vietnamese Community Bounces Back with Urban Agriculture
City Farmer News - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
Viet Village Urban Farm, New Orleans, Louisiana, by Mossop + Michaels. There are 8,000 Vietnamese concentrated in a one-mile radius in New Orleans East. J. Green The Dirt 06/10/2013 Excerpt: The development corporation found a trainer who could teach aquaculture, the practice of raising fish on...
Monday Harvest – 17th June 2013
Suburban Tomato - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
It has been a wet week this week. Melbourne has been uncharacteristically damp and as aresult my family is running out of clothesdue to an inabilityget anything to dry. I feel bad whinging about rain as we have decent amounts of it comparatively rarely but I would be a lot happier if it came in...
Garden Design: A Border for One Season
May Dreams Gardens - 06/17/13 - 1 days ago
One of the best decisions I made three years ago when I worked with a garden designer to lay out the garden borders was to plant one border with plants that bloom only in late summer and early fall. I call it August Dreams Garden and right now it is just green plants. The only color comes from a...
