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By Rick Kelly | March 22nd, 2010 | Leave a comment | Share:
  Tags: seeds | Category: Confessions of a Novice Gardener Happy Spring! It’s that time of year when you begin to think about buying seeds to plant all Spring and Summer long. This year I got to work early dreaming about my garden and planning out all the vegetables I wanted to grow. Despite a goal of planting fewer varieties of plants we’d be [...] Continue reading ’Tis the season to be seeding… By Rick Kelly | October 17th, 2009 | Leave a comment | Share:
Category: Confessions of a Novice Gardener EEk! Sorry everyone – I missed September entirely. Oh well, at least I have a lot to say about the garden. As you may remember, I’ve been growing my first real attempt at a garden this year, with a 12×4 foot raised bed. Last time I wrote I was complaining [...] Continue reading Harvest Times By Rick Kelly | August 27th, 2009 | Leave a comment | Share:
Tags: FEASt, Open Garden Day | Category: Confessions of a Novice Gardener Check out this awesome event happening next month! I’m signing up my garden, so come on down and visit on the 20th! Email local.feast@gmail.com to sign up your own garden or just sign up for the FEASt newsletter (in order to get the map to the ‘open garden day’) -Rick FEASt (Food Education Action [...] Continue reading FEASt’s Open Garden Day – Sign Up! By Rick Kelly | August 4th, 2009 | Leave a comment | Share:
Category: Confessions of a Novice Gardener Hi folks – Rick here, I have now had several delicious salads from the garden: lettuce, beet and turnip tops (while thinning out the small ones), some green beans and squash flowers (you can eat them). There have been a few issues to talk about, though. Water Ban! I’m sure every gardener using the [...] Continue reading A Thriving Back Yard Garden Haha, I thought we were having great weather this year, but yesterday’s frost warning had me running to cover up the garden with bed sheets! Otherwise things seem to be going well. The greens are slowly coming up, as are the root vegetables. There are some little squash forming. The Kale didn’t come up, [...] Continue reading Frost?! By Rick Kelly | June 22nd, 2009 | 2 comments | Share:
Tags: Planting, square foot gardening | Category: Confessions of a Novice Gardener Done! (Almost). This weekend I planted all of my seedlings, and a bunch of seeds. Last week I was mixing together the soil in the raised bed according to a recipe, but I lacked vermiculite. I couldn’t find it anywhere and I got some advice that it wasn’t necessary with good peat, so I [...] Continue reading Garden! By Rick Kelly | June 16th, 2009 | 3 comments | Share:
Tags: Copper, Peat moss, Raised Bed, Slugs, Vermiculite | Category: Confessions of a Novice Gardener
12 by 4 feet raised bed. I built my raised bed last week! It didn’t take too long. I laid out lengths of weed barrier over the space where the bed was going, with a half [...] Continue reading Quick Bed Building Update (No Slugs Allowed!) By Rick Kelly | June 2nd, 2009 | 2 comments | Share:
Tags: seedlings, square foot gardening | Category: Confessions of a Novice Gardener Long time no see! This week I’m here to talk about my preparations to build a raised bed and a bit about seedling starting. As I mentioned last time, I have some tomato plants started already, but it’s about time to start a few others now as well. Most seed packets will tell you [...] Continue reading Preparing to build a bed… By Rick Kelly | May 11th, 2009 | 2 comments | Share:
Tags: Container Gardening, Gardening, Lead, Raised Bed, seedlings | Category: Confessions of a Novice Gardener Hello everyone, Last year's salad greens. My name is Rick Kelly and I’ll be your amateur gardener this year! I’m going to be making posts all season about my backyard garden. [...] Continue reading Confessions of a First Time Gardener |
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