Category: Gardening
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Gardening Diary – February 19, 2021
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Fertilized straw bale beds #1-4, #7-8. Used almost the whole gallon of the Alaska Fish Fertilizer. Sharon said that she would use only a half a gallon. Therefore, she suggested that I skip the 2nd day of fertilizing tomorrow.
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Gardening Diary – February 10, 2021
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Straw bale beds #1-4 Picture taken on February 10, 2021. From a second palette, took 6 or 7 wheat straw bales to finish installing the straw bales in the raised beds #3-4. Straw bale bed #7 Picture taken on February 10, 2021. 1 or 2 of the straw bales had…
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Gardening Diary – February 9, 2021
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Shipment from Home Depot Picture taken on February 9, 2021. Yesterday, ordered 24 wheat straw bales, 6 pine straw bales, 10 1 ft3 bags of garden soil and 75 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini-nuggets mulch, They were brought to the house this morning and were contained on 4 palettes. Straw…
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Gardening Diary – February 6, 2021
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Raised beds #1-4. Picture taken on February 6, 2021. Finished hand weeding raised beds #1-4 and finished putting a double layer of cardboard on these raised beds.
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Gardening Diary – February 5, 2021
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Stepping stones in the Lenten Rose bed. Picture taken on February 6, 2021. From the car, took 6 of the stepping stones which we had purchased last month from Lowe’s and placed them in the Lenten Rose bed. Raised beds #7-8. Picture taken on February 6, 2021. To prepare the…
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Gardening Diary – January 26, 2021
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Raised bed #6 Picture taken on January 26, 2021. Moved all the pots that were in raised bed #7 over to the raised bed #6. For several years, we had these pots on shelves at the back of the house in the “herb bed”. These shelves began to deteriorate even…
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Gardening Diary – January 23, 2021
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Raised beds #1-6 and 2nd Bulb bed. Picture taken January 23, 2021. Completed weed-eating the walkway along the right side of raised beds #1-4 and the walkways on either side of raised beds #5-6. Also weed-eated the raised beds #3-4. Removed the stalks of the Sunflowers that were in raised…
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Gardening Diary – January 22, 2021
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Raised beds #1-6 and 2nd Bulb bed. Picture taken January 22, 2021. Started cleaning up the garden and started to prepare the raised beds so that we can start setting up straw bales in raised beds #1-4 and #7-8. Sharon and I decided to reduce the number of straw bale…
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Gardening Diary – September 19, 2020
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Kneeler Picture taken on September 21, 2020. Sharon and I fixed the kneeler that I use to work on the ground. The part on which I kneel is made of a plastic grid sandwiched between 2 pieces of plastic. The plastic grid broke in pieces and stripped the screws after…
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