From the category archives:
I have been working my proverbial ass off getting my new garden ready for fall, and it’s finally almost complete. First I had to deal with a giant cherry stump, and then rake away a few inches’ worth of debris and yuckiness, and THEN I learned that the whole garden was just one big weed [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been doing some intense gardening. At this point, it’s actually more like landscaping than gardening. I’ve been digging down to about twelve inches to reach the root systems for the mass of blackberries that have monopolized our side yard for some time, and now I’m tackling an old, rotten cherry [...]
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As I mentioned earlier, we’ve started our own little garden in our backyard. We live in wine country, so it was relatively easy to find some once-used wine barrels that are discarded by wineries every year. These wine barrels, cut in half and filled with plants of all kinds, are a common sight in our [...]
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I’m adding a new category to The Scoop: gardening. I’ve written about composting before, but as I’m learning more and more about keeping a garden, I’m realizing just how important it is. I’m not pretending that our garden (a handful of used wine barrels in our backyard) is going to provide all of the vegetables [...]
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