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A fenced vegetable garden with young plants thrives under a cloudy sky, set against the backdrop of a vast field by Owl Creek Farm.
Life in AlbertaGardening

Weeding

July 6, 2021 4 min to read

Back in 2008, in my very first garden blog post, I said that I hated weeding. And that was true for a lot of years. Weeding is not easy on …

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Large fenced garden with small plants and pots, surrounded by open fields and trees under a cloudy sky, just a stone's throw from Owl Creek Farm.
GardeningLife in Alberta

Less time to type = more to type about

June 22, 2021 4 min to read

Less work = more posting. More work = less posting. Funny how that works. I prefer more frequently posting little bits of news, it’s easier to look back on and …

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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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Gardening

Don’t eat the apple in the Garden of Eatin’

August 29, 2008 1 min to read

Bad stuff’ll happen….weeds will take over so badly you can’t catch up and all you can hope for it to clear little areas around the still producing plants so they …

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Gardening

General growy-ness

August 15, 2008 2 min to read

Just a general update on how things are going in the Garden of Eatin’ today. The weeds are taking over. I need to get out there and attack with the …

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Life in Oregon

Weeding made…….. fun?

May 24, 2008 1 min to read

[image links are broken after several hosting moves, hoping to find backups somewhere] If not fun, at least tolerable, and easy. I’ve been eying an oscillating hoe for a couple …

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