Garden
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Planting by the Moon – the Farmers Almanac
According to the Farmers Almanac Planting by the Moon calendar, these next 3 days, Dec 14-16, are primetime for planting sweet corn, beans and other above ground crops (check your frost dates, just to be sure). The Farmers Almanac site has a free shipping offer running for the next few days. I love their gardening…
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Automate the Process, When You Can
Automate the process when you can, oscillators and timers can be a great help for harried gardener-types!We have found that a couple oscillators and timers make all the difference in our garden-without-an-irrigation-system. {Our secret shame!} This year we mulched with hay in late summer, and started watering the perennial beds for 1 hour per week,…
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Phytoremediation Project – Part 1
The west slope has been a theoretical and practical problem since we moved in. First, because of the huge, never-pruned or thinned 40-year cypress in the northwest corner, the slope is dark quite early (around 5pm in summer) and second, due to the 40 year accumulation of ash and a whole bunch of clumping kitty litter.
Grow Your Bliss 