Archive for April, 2010

How to not do any gardening.

You can plan, and you can hope, but planning and hoping won’t always make things happen. My plan was to plant seeds on Tuesday. I got pretty busy between my two jobs, so this didn’t happen. Then it rained. However, it didn’t just rain. It was also very cold outside. I consider below 60 degrees [...]

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Why I Didn’t Plant Today

I did it again. I told you all I was going to do something before I did it, and then I didn’t do it. I went out to the garden to poke some holes in the dirt for seeds this evening, but when I flipped the paper envelopes of seeds over to read the instructions [...]

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Garden Zen

I’m going to admit something to you. I really only have time to work on my garden once or twice a week. All week long, I was thinking about my next post and how I was going to title it “How To Give Up”. Yes, I was going to give up on tilling by hand [...]

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How to Till With Your Bare Hands!

There have been some obstacles to starting my garden. I live in the Midwest, a part of the country with extremely unpredictable weather. Every chance that I’ve had from mid-February, when I wanted to start, until this weekend, it has either snowed, rained, or I’ve had previous engagements. Life and weather sometimes get in the [...]

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The N00b Garden

When I was a kid, my father always kept a vegetable garden and I always helped. For nearly eighteen years of my life, I dug my fingers in the dirt, got seeds stuck to my hands, let mud mush between my toes, and plucked weeds out with my fingers. It was wonderful. I lived for [...]

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