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kitchen garden

Gardening in Extreme Suburbia

May 4, 2010

Over the past few weeks, we have been busy transforming the sunny corner of my tiny suburban yard into a kitchen garden. As I mentioned before, I live in extreme suburbia in a townhome. Needless to say I have a very small plot of land to use for my garden. I am fortunate enough to [...]

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Home grown ‘maters

May 4, 2010

Now that it’s May, gardeners everywhere are starting to dream of tomatoes. Fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes are truly one of the greatest foods ever.  Nothing can compare, especially not the cardboard orbs masquerading as tomatoes in grocery stores. I’ve already seen some greenhouse-grown tomatoes at the farmers’ market, but the fact is, they’re still not as good [...]

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Plan carefully

April 2, 2010

One  thing I’ve learned in my years of gardening is that it is always possible to make stupid mistakes. Case in point:  A few weeks ago, I laid out the soaker hoses in my kitchen garden.  (In case you’re not familiar with them, they’re black hoses that are porous so that water can drip out [...]

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Apples, peaches, and cherries … oh my!

March 19, 2010

We are quite fortunate here in Virginia to have so many orchards within short driving distances and my family loves to pick our own apples every fall. Even though I’ve been gardening for 15 years, I’ve never had fruit trees before, mostly because I didn’t have space in my old yard.  Now I do and [...]

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Can you lend a row?

March 18, 2010

The Local Food Hub is looking for a few good gardeners. Actually, make that a LOT of good gardeners. Join them in their efforts to provide fresh local fruits and veggies to those those in need. How? Just Plant a Row for the Hungry. All you have to do is plant those veggies — the [...]

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The early spring garden

March 10, 2010

The weather here in Charlottesville has been glorious lately.  After such a long, snowy winter, the sunshine and warmer temps have people rushing to get into their gardens, myself included.  After having not been in my garden since November, I am impatient to start digging, raking, planting, and more. [And can I just mention here [...]

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