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Tweet A recent thread on the Portland Backyard Farmers group has been dealing with shade. Everyone has some shady area on their property. I used to live in a condo that only opened up to the north. In Minnesota. (Young people do some stupid things.) Most of us have plenty of shade here in [...] Tweet I don’t have the heart to do the big pestilence post that I’d planned, so I’ll just say that if this weather does not shape up soon, I’m going to just jackhammer a hole into the floor of my greenhouse and plan on growing everything in there… under artificial lighting… I could barely [...] Tweet I grow most everything from seed. It’s a pain, and it takes up a lot of time, but… I dunno… it just feels more like I did something if I raise as much as I can from itsy-bitsy seeds. It’s, theoretically, cheaper, though I’m not sure how well that pencils out when you [...] Tweet Isn’t ironic? Donchathink? The more that I’m gardening, the less that I write about it. Yeah, well, OK, anyway… Thanks to the global economic meltdown, I have had a bit more time in my yard. That is to say, I get up, go outside, and work myself silly until my wife makes me [...] Tweet Today, I happened across an article about how to make aerated compost tea. You get a bucket, an air pump, some compost, water… blah blah blah, and pretty soon you’ve got this lovely bucket of disease-preventing, nutrient-rich foliar spray! That’s awesome, I thought! I’ll do that! As is my style, though, I thought [...] |
 
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