Easy Durable Raised Bed Trellising

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Water Wise Gardening

Growing SWISS CHARD

All about delicious swiss chard. How to grow swiss chard. Go to.. http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/How-To-Grow-Swiss-Chard.aspx

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Diners in the basement: Restaurant feeds worms too | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

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Gardening Is Not For Sissies??

Come on now...gardening is SO worth it...eating ' pretty store-bought dead cardboard' food is NOT for sissies. I found this article from PENNLIVE.COM and it has some very good tips for lifting and turning correctly, being careful on ladders etc. , great things to know and I wanted to give everyone the link. So, go here.. http://blog.pennlive.com/life/2010/04/gardening_is_not_for_sissies_t.html

BUT, eating your own safe delicious veggies is so worth it...yumm..your home grown veggies always taste like real food because it IS real food and your body will get some real nutrition from it too. Putting harsh chemicals/fertilizers on your plants and poisoning your body, when you eat those plants IS dangerous! It's easy to learn to grow healthy plants without using the harsh stuff. Let's do it. JA ROSE-BARTLETT ;WORM GUYS' http://www.wormguys.com/
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Life Without Onions?...NO WAY

This week end, we noticed that a 50 lb. bag of plain dried yellow onions that we use to buy for under $7.00 at the grocery outlet store 2 years ago, was now selling for over $30.00 at the same store! Well, that got our attention because we use onions ALL the time...everyday in fact. Onions are so wonderful with all types of beans, in soups, eggs, rice, and pasta dishes. etc...just think about it. We're eating more of these easy on our pocketbook foods now...as living costs rise and wages don't seem to be. 'What would we do without onions?'

I looked today online for yellow onion seeds or sets for our garden, we want heirloom onions too for saving for next year...most places were 'out-of-stock'...'WHAT?' Well, It is spring and some places were closed on Mondays. BUT, I love onions and garlic in my cooking and 'could not imagine' life without onions...cool. So, kept looking.

If you love onions or need more garden seeds etc. TERRORITAL SEEDS in Oregon have done a fine job for us before and have onions still..Go here if you need garden seeds. http://www.territorialseed.com/ Jan

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JA ROSE-BARTLETT 'WORM GUYS'   http://www.wormguys.com/

Top Secret Gardening

A couple of our top secret ideas for our garden this year..

1. Plant our vegtables in a hay bale. That's a bale of hay or straw. Why not? Hay or straw are both great for mulch and will decompose next winter into excellent mulch that will help your 'normal' garden and make a home for worms, hay is affordable. I know hay or straw holds moisture, putting newspapers under the bales may help with less watering and newspapers will turn into great mulch [Steve and I like using cardboard...usually contain less ink than newspapers and worms seem to just love cardboard and move into your garden and help with your garden]....hopefully....less watering too. We'll see this growing season and know more next fall.
2. Another new idea that I like is from Kim Wood .. and we will use this year...using wire fencing in the garden. By that I mean , a a roll of welded wire. cut into several lengths and 3-foot widths, they are placed as a dome over each garden bed after they are planted. This prevents kids, pets etc. from walking on small delicate new plants. The wire also acts as a support for plastic if weather turns cold unexpectly in the spring.
And,all the plants that spread out in a garden, Kim uses a welded-wire cage, around a compost pile of dried leaves, horse manure and other organic material, the wire fence pieces are held together with zip ties. DO NOT plant your garden/plants in the compost inside this wire cage that's been created. The compost will get too hot and damage plants. But, plant your veggies etc. along the outside of the wire fence, the plants can be tied to the fencing if needing support during the growing months so the vegetables are off the ground. Water only the inside of wire cage by hand by pouring a bucket of water in side this compost cage or use a hand held hose to water inside the compost, and let the water run out into the plants, this slowly fertilizes the plants. I think this is a great idea, and I will be trying it this year, I will be be careful and watch the compost pile for heat and use aged manure only.
Kim Wood's favorite book on this subject is “Tips for the Lazy Gardener” by Linda Tiglner, which I will find and read right away.
For Kim Wood..go here.. KIM WOOD's Site
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JA ROSE-BARTLETT 'WORM GUYS' http://www.wormguys.com/

Master Muffin Mix

This is a great recipe for different Muffins... http://www.superhealthykids.com/mastermuffinmix.html

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