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jean baker replied to gayle petersen's discussion 'potatoes'
you have chosen well. fingerlings are so buttery tasting you won't even need to add butter when you eat them. some kinds of potatoes that mounding will produce more potatoes and some won't. one early year i enthusiastically mounded up 3…
jean baker replied to Sarah Garibaldi's discussion 'my spinach has bolted but is still small -why?'
alas, once spinach becomes stressed it will "bolt" or go to seed as you have observed yours doing. transplanting alone is very stressful and often prompts bolting of small spinaches. that is why most seasoned gardeners plant spinach seed…
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- I am an urban gardener who turned her typical 75 by 150 foot suburban lot into an organic garden where we grow most of our food. It's been a wonderful adventure. I'm a locavore, which is someone who only eats foods grown within 100 miles of her home instead of the 1500 miles food travels on average to your kitchen table. My goal is to turn that 100 miles into 100 feet!
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- At 8:12pm on January 23, 2009,
Linda G. said… - Reply to Jean about the lettuce....
wasnt it though, I walked around looking for a few places that needed new trees and which row and what was going where, in the garden this year. Are we getting spring fever yet? I started getting it in November.
- At 9:19am on January 16, 2009,
bob said… - hi jean baker when do you set cold frames? plant my garden in small compost bens in tomato cages they are 2 feet tal. this year like to caver with pastic with light for heat..dont think this is a cold frame? do you think this will work for,cabage family and lettus-so on? start my seeds in ten cans = kitchen wendow then move to cages with covers.thanks for any info. bob
- At 3:32pm on January 9, 2009,
Kevin Marsh said…
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