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Harvesting & PreservingLife in AlbertaGardeningAnimalsGoats

As summer fades

September 28, 2021 3 min to read

It has been a whirlwind summer. The garden went in, with many lessons learned through the whole season. In early July, we got enough of the fencing done to put …

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Gardening

Painfully obvious lessons

September 3, 2008 1 min to read

More lessons, con’t from this post… Tomato cages. Just suck it up and buy them. Stakes do no good when they have 6 “main” stalks coming up from the ground! …

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Life in Oregon

To build a trellis

June 10, 2008 5 min to read

Stephanie asked me to write up how I made the new pea trellis. I was glad to have something to pull me away from work, so I got right on …

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Life in Oregon

Fall/winter cover crop

June 9, 2008 4 min to read

Having never been able to be somewhere where I could contemplate the next season’s garden, I had never heard of a cover crop until I started researching gardening this spring. …

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Gardening

More lessons from the field

June 7, 2008 1 min to read

continuing on a previous post…. Pea and bean trellis needs to have vertical lines to climb the best. And “garden twine” from Lowes is crap. Look at it wrong and …

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Gardening

Lessons from the field

May 29, 2008 1 min to read

errr, garden. This will likely become a page all to itself, depending on how much I find I’ve learned. To start, I have learned the peas need very little nitrogen. …

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Earthworms move slow…right? Right??

May 27, 2008 1 min to read

So I’ve always been of the notion that earthworms are slow. I mean, they let you pick them up and they move around in your hand slow, then inch around …

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