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Controlling Leaf Miners

Damned Leaf Miners

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There’s a few pests that I’ve not been able to generate a lot of Buddhist compassion for… the aphid, the weevil, and the leaf miner.  They’re all disgusting and deserve an eternity in the hell of boiling oil– at least until I’m able to remove the illusion of separation between myself and them.  [...]

Grafted Tomatoes

That's a $10 tomato start, folks.

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The veritable Lady Gaga, or potentially Charlie Sheen, of this garden season seems to be the grafted tomato.  You’d think it was something cooked up in a Monsanto lab in a test tube with all the hype about them.  I must admit that I hadn’t given the whole thing a lot of thought [...]

iUrbanHayseed

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In my other life, I’m a techie guy.  I just enrolled in the Apple iOS Developer Program, which mostly only means that I can test my apps on an actual device instead of the simulator, and an app I was working on was to make use of GPS and the camera, neither of [...]

Second Crop: Rhubarb: Rhubarb Custard Pie

Don't pass up the opportunity to add more sugar in the whipped cream!

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One of the few things I recall growing in my yard as a kid was this patch of rhubarb back on the northeastsouthwest corner.  Don’t know if it’s still there, but it seemed like a fixture over the years.  I used to love breaking off the stems and dipping them in sugar to [...]

Growing Potatoes: Repeated Hilling is Dumb

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One of my most popular posts, to this day, is this one about Growing Potatoes in Tires.  That was three years ago now.  I thought it might be worth revisiting this whole thing.  My opinion these days is that most of us are missing the point about this whole “hilling” thing.

Hilling potatoes [...]