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Winter Sowing Adventures of (Almost Nursery) Scale
Oops. I ignored my fridge seed experiments too long and accidentally sprouted a bunch of them early. I’m seed-snailing them along with several tree seeds, hoping they won’t need more space than this until I…
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Making a Tiny Forest, the Miyawaki way
We bought our new home for the possibilities, projects and experiments it afforded us, in the quiet of the countryside just outside the city limits, but where school buses still stop to pickup our 3…
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A purpose-built (future) rain garden
I’ve been quiet. It’s a great feeling, because we’ve been so busy outside this first spring in our new place, with so many ideas and discoveries and projects, and dirty hands with mud-crusted nails, and…
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A groomed garden bed approach to killing my lawn to build pollinator habitat
The quick pollinator shade garden I made last week is doing great. I think I may have cooked some of the really early spring bloomers by waiting so late to plant them, but they are…
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Native shade garden in a day
So I did a thing today. It was a pretty big thing as it was the first time I’ve planted anything in our new place. As you may recall, or maybe you have no idea…
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Embrace Impulsive Gardening: How killing plants makes me a better gardener
I met a maybe-new-friend last week, and of course we chatted plants, chickens, and weird ailments. She said something to me along the lines of wishing she could bring herself to just do, and not…
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The Greenhouse Build
This thing… sigh. It’s been a lot, of everything. Hard work, obsession, learning opportunities, constraints, symbolism, acceptance, and so many other feelings and emotions I’m just now starting to digest and process. I have dreamed,…
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Tomatoes, tomAHtoes and 34 varieties of everything in between
We LOVE tomatoes around here. My personal favorites are large beefsteak and slicing varieties, but the kids prefer cherry, grape and any other small type of small tomatoes so we have always grown a few…
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The making of a nursery. Year 1… February Updates
Getting away from my personal life and back to the purpose of this blog, here’s an update on our activities and where we are at coming to the end of this short month, and preparing…
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Winter Sowing for Beginners: Easy Steps to Get Started
I’ve been winter sowing seeds successfully for sever years, and racking up mistakes, learnings and tips from my experiences, as well as those of many others who started winter sowing before me, so by now…