Mantis Tiller Review

Mantis Tillers are great little workhorses for the yard and garden

I’ve had a 2-stroke Mantis tiller since 2005, and I want to share my experience with Mantis tillers with you here. If it wasn’t for my Mantis, I wouldn’t have anywhere near the number of garden beds … Read the rest

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April 29, 2019 at 12:08AM

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Espalier apples with tulips (and a lot of weeds 😀) growing underneath them. . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #appletree #espalier #espalierfruittrees

April 27, 2019 at 04:44PM

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Our Rainier cherry tree always looks lovely in blossom. It got rather firmly pruned in Feb because we missed pruning it the year before, but still plenty of flowers! . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #cherryblossom #rainiercherry #fruittree #springblossoms

Video Friday: How to Grow Green Chili at Home

How to Grow green chili at home

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April 25, 2019 at 09:28PM

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Comfrey is sprouting enthusiastically, as usual. That’s a peach tree against the wall, under a roof overhang to protect from peach leaf curl. A couple of goumi shrubs fix nitrogen in the soil but we’re not too keen on the berries! . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #comfrey #peachtree #fruittree #goumi

April 24, 2019 at 01:36AM

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First batch of peas are looking good but it’s definitely time to take the chicken wire off! . . #peas #growyourown #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #gardeningknowhow

The Benefits of Raising Chickens

There are multiple benefits to keeping chickens in your backyard. Beyond egg and meat production, chickens produce manure for your garden and eat waste food and some garden scraps. Some methods of chicken keeping also use chickens to help reduce weed and insect problems in the garden. Finally, … Read the rest

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April 20, 2019 at 06:29PM

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90% of dinner from less than 50ft away: unexpected overwintered potatoes from a bed we just cleared, green garlic ditto, Brussels sprout shoots, overwintered leeks, and some butter and cheese for extra flavor. Blackcurrant juice frozen last summer. We are so lucky! . . #localdinner #localfood #100milediet #50milediet #100footdiet #growyourownfood #frommygarden #homegrownfood #homegrown #potatoes #brusselsprouts #greengarlic #leeks #blackcurrantjuice #blackcurrant

April 19, 2019 at 07:00PM

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Going to be teaching a landscaping course later this month. We’ll spend a week working in this neglected courtyard garden. This is the second session, and should be much pleasanter than the very cold, wet week we spent back in November! . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #urbangardeners #gardenhomestead #containergardening #containergardens #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #herbgarden #herbgardening #herbgardens #compost #composting #newgarden #newgardener #gardening101 #gardeningknowhow #gardeningnewbie #gardeningforbeginners

Video Friday: Secret Tips For The Ultimate Veggie Garden

Graham creates a feature veggie garden for a young family, with a bit of help from Adam. Along the way, they’ll fill you in on how to start your own veggie patch – from choosing the perfect spot, to what to grow and how.

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April 19, 2019 at 10:56AM

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Harvest day on the #microgreens farm! . . #indoorgrowing #peas #peashoots #harvest #localfood #farmersmarket #wintermarket #springgreens

April 18, 2019 at 08:42AM

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Hiding between those giant sunflowers is a young cherry tree. That was the year of the giant squash field, too! . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #summersquash #sunflowers #cherrytree #summer #veggiegarden

April 18, 2019 at 01:59AM

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This is a good example of what happens after you “top” an evergreen tree that’s getting too tall. Multiple new tops grow, giving you a tree that is more likely to fall in a high wind because of the increased “sail area” at the top. Looks ugly too. . . #treesurgeon #treetopping #tootall #sosad #whatnottodo

Garden Soil Amendments and How to Use Them

Here’s some information on the many possible amendments you can add to the soil in your organic garden, and how best to make use of them.

Manure

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April 14, 2019 at 12:34PM

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I just spent the morning showing a group of folks how to take stem cuttings and divisions of herbaceous perennials, but forgot to take pics, so you het a gratuitous photo of a random squash 😀 . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #newgardener #gardening101 #gardeningknowhow #squash #squashblossom

April 13, 2019 at 09:27PM

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Just up the street from us is an empty lot, which allows a view through to this lovely cherry tree in a valley garden, for this one week in the year. . . #cherryblossom #springblossoms #blossomtree #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #gardenhomestead #homesteadgardens

April 12, 2019 at 07:29PM

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Time for cherry blossom! These street trees have pink buds that open to white flowers. . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #urbangardens #urbangardeners #gardenhomestead #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #cherryblossom #cherryblossoms #streettrees #springblossoms

Video Friday: This Gardener Regularly Grows 100-Pound Vegetables

Growing up in a family of 13, Phillip Vowles learned to appreciate the effort it took to feed all his brothers and sisters. So when he started harvesting his own crop, he decided to supersize his venture. As Phillip says, “big vegetables feed big families.” Today, his giant … Read the rest

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April 11, 2019 at 08:28AM

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I love these little violas. . . #violaflowers #pansies #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #organicgardens #gardenhomestead #containergardening #containergardens #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening

April 10, 2019 at 09:20AM

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My ex and I built this garden over the winter of 2003-4, using sheet mulching techniques on top of the rocky gravel that passed for soil on this rented lot. It worked very well and grew some excellent veg, but on this scale (a 50x50’ area) it’s definitely not a low work technique! R to L in the pic: tall snap peas on an a-frame trellis, short snow peas on a smaller a-frame trellis, with lettuce along the edge of the bed, and on the L I think there was potatoes at the near end and annual flowers for bouquets further away. In the background is the hoophouse with roll up doors and sides, tomatoes in the center bed and maybe still salad mix in the side beds. I sold about $3000 of veg from this garden in Apr-Sep 2004. . . #trellis #snappeas #sugarsnappeas #snowpeas #sugarpeas #peas #hoophouse #polytunnel #hightunnel #sheetmulching #lasagnagardening #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #organicgardens #gardenhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens

Containers for Growing Seedlings

You have a wide choice of containers if you want to grow your own seedlings, and they all have pros and cons. Here’s some info so you can make an educated choice:

Container type	Pros	Cons
Plastic flats with inserts and lids	Easily available No mess, easy to

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April 09, 2019 at 09:16AM

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Closeup of Japanese flowering quince. These do occasionally make a quince fruit but are mostly ornamental. While the flowers are very pretty, the plant grows in weird angular ugly shapes and is very spiny. Not my favorite, especially when it needs pruning! . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #japanesequince #floweringshrub #chaenomeles

Grow Your Own Seedlings on this DIY Light Stand

When I started growing my own transplants, the setup was pretty rickety. After a cat-related disaster one day, I realized that I had to have something better. Commercial light stands at $500+ were out of my budget, so I built my own – and so can you. Here … Read the rest

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April 07, 2019 at 09:12AM

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Green shoots in back are garlic planted last fall, now more than a foot high. Shorter shoots in front are garlic planted a few weeks ago. This will be an interesting test since it’s the same seed garlic from our last years crop (we’ve been growing and saving it for about 10 years now) soil and microclimate and rain etc are the same, only the planting time is different. . . #garlic #seedgarlic #growinggarlic #growyourowngarlic #homegrowngarlic ##greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #gardeningknowhow #gardenexperiment

April 06, 2019 at 12:27PM

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In previous years we’ve planted up pots of bulbs in the fall but we didn’t get to it last year. I’ll just have to enjoy this pic of last year’s! . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #containergardening #containergardens #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #gardening101 #gardeningknowhow #gardeningforbeginners #tulips #springbulbs #springflowers

Video Friday: Rocket Mass Heater Workshop (Permaculture homesteading)

A Rocket Mass Heater is great for homesteading & applied permaculture.

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April 04, 2019 at 08:07AM

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Throwback to a few years ago when Alfie ran off with my rejected tomato seedlings (the ones not good enough to plant), and planted them in last year’s compost bin. We got a classic example of what happens when you give tomatoes too much nitrogen: a wild riot of foliage and no fruit till the very end of the season! . . #tomatoplant #homegrowntomatoes #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #compost #composting #gardening101 #gardeningproblems #gardeningknowhow