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Garbage Can Potatoes

Using vague instructions from The New Self-Sufficient Gardener by John Seymour (see page 134), two old garbage bins [well-scrubbed] and seed potatoes from Westcoast Seeds we attempted to grow our own baked potatoes this year. We were cautioned, via instructions that came with the seed potatoes, to limit irrigation BEFORE we had growth, and I […]

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Garden update: all the baby plants

A bunch of little seedlings made their transitions out into the big wide world of the garden this weekend, and I thought, as a collection, they made a sweet, though photo heavy, blog post (I think there are too many commas in that last sentence…). I requested a cool three-tier wooden pot to house another […]