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Snow and Garden Cartography

Posted by Nika On January - 22 - 2011

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The northeast has fallen into a repetitive trough pattern of snow storm after snow storm .. this next wed we may be looking at a proper olde tyme yankee storm I remember from when we first moved here in 1996 winter – a 4 foot storm.

As always I have to be on budget and very frugal re: garden planning and seed starting. I am getting geared up now to set up my calendar of seed starting and planting based on our last frost date of May 15 (which is still quite iffy).

Saving seed from garlic chives

Posted by Nika On October - 10 - 2010

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I hope all is well with you all!

I have included here a bit of audio – sort of a meditation on – saving seeds from garlic chives.

Tomato Beauty

Posted by Nika On August - 29 - 2010

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So much is afoot here! My garden blog lags a bit in summer because of all the gardening! I have a huge amount of photos archived for posts that will likely happen once the harvest is in.

I thought I would share the voluptuous beauty of some of our Gold Medal heirloom tomatoes with you!

Humble Garden 2010: gold medal tomatoes

Look at how crazy heirlooms get!

Humble Garden 2010: gold medal tomatoes

Humble Garden 2010: gold medal tomatoes

Seedball Dispenser – an AMAZING idea!

Posted by Nika On July - 8 - 2010

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This is an idea that really sings to me! An unattended gumball dispenser dispensing seedballs!

Support their project at KickStarter at this link: Greenaid-Seedbomb Vending for Greener Cities!

See how it works: (click through for video)

See their site at: GreenAid

This crowd sources guerilla gardening.

I really hope it takes off!

Here is their description:


Sponsors

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We are a family of 5, including Nika, Ed, Q (14), KD (7), and Baby Oh (4). We garden 1024 square feet of raised beds plus assorted permacultural plantings. We also have 13 LaMancha dairy goats, 40 chickens, and one guard llama.

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