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I want to Grow My Own

Blog: Heritage Hills Farm   -   Sunday January 22, 2012   -   By Patricia

Maybe instead of a CSA you want to grow your own garden. If you live in an area like I do you can easily find the basic seeds, cabbage, corn, beans, lettuce, eggplant etc but how about things like celeriac, Jicama, Cardoons, heirloom tomatoes etc. To get these...

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Creating Eco-friendly, Recycled Newspaper Seed Sta...

Blog: Wall Flower Studio Garden   -   Tuesday March 29, 2011   -   By Karen

Well, I finally broke down and purchased a pot maker.  I'm really glad that I did! It's "sow" easy to use, and, the pots are the perfect seed starting size every time!  The fact that I'm using recycling...

Starting seeds with recycled materials

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Thursday March 17, 2011   -   By Mary

Starting your seeds in egg cartons is easy, but some people find that their cartons dry out quickly.   Rather than baby the cartons of starts, put them in a tray full of water, and let the carton wick the water up.   Don’t overfill the tray – the...

From the Farm

Blog: Heritage Harvest Farm   -   Thursday March 10, 2011   -   By MattCorinneFletcher

Hello from Heritage Harvest Farm! This is our first blog, so I'm very excited to share a lot of news with farm followers. First, I have been starting a lot of seeds since the middle of February in preparation for spring. I've got onions, celery,...

Seeds Starting

Blog: Osma Acres Farm   -   Tuesday March 08, 2011   -   By Billy

  Osma Acres Farm is located on Lake Superior where we have a very short outdoor growing season (about 75 days, June to early September). Many of our plants require 90 to 110 days to mature after planting (Gourds, Pumpkins and Winter Squash...

Potting Season Again ... Yeah !!!

Blog: Osma Acres Farm   -   Sunday April 11, 2010   -   By Billy

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maple sap is running, chickens ordered and seeds p...

Blog: Richert/Phillips Farms   -   Saturday March 06, 2010   -   By Michael

   We have had a busy week--our season has began. Maple trees are running(giving sap) and we have been setting new taps while collecting sap from already set trees. Most of the time sap is collected once a day but today we had to go out twice, that...

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THE S.FLORIDA FALL GROWING SEASON IS IN.ARE YOU RE...

Blog: Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Tuesday September 08, 2009   -   By Tony

HERE,The fall season is the BEGINING of the growing season...not the END! We in  S.Florida,are at odds with most of the other US regions ,with respect to our planting and harvesting timetable! While you guys UP NORTH prepare to harvest...

Roma Tomatoes

Blog: Whispering Pines   -   Sunday June 21, 2009   -   By Roni

Started twenty new Roma tomatoes from seed today.  Lord willing, we should have some nice tasting paste type tomatoes to make spaghetti sauce with this fall.  The Roma's take about 75-90 days to ripen.  They are an...

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Starting Baby on Food

Blog: Cookus Interruptus   -   Thursday April 16, 2009   -   By Cynthia

Feeding your baby fresh, local, organic whole foods is easy and inexpensive if you just whir a bit of your own delicious food in the blender.  Watch and read the how and what of starting your baby on solid food this week on Cookus Interruptus.   We...

medical marijuana gros great in Laama Doo!

Blog: Llama Doo fertilizer for houseplants and garden   -   Thursday November 06, 2008   -   By Darral

use as a seedling starter by inserting a medical marijuana seed inside and planting about as deep as your finger in really loose soil


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