Welcome to all the new gardeners and welcome back old friends!

Wasn’t the weather just perfect for gardening this weekend?

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Paris is starting her sweetcorn

Paris is planting her sweetcorn inside – we are making the pots from newspaper, and she has been busy collecting the kernels from her last year’s crop to plant.
Will keep you upated!

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Thinking of spring?

I know I am thinking of spring! Yes, it’s snowing outside today, but it can’t go on for much longer, right? After all, we have spring planting to consider!
There is something you can do right now. Have you received a hoarde of seed catalogs in the mail? Now is the time to plan your garden [...]

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Summer’s almost over, but the planting’s just begun!

Yes, dear gardening friends, there is still time to plant for a fall crop!
As summer fades out, it’s now the perfect time to plant the following:
Beets – about 50 days to harvest.
Broccoli – don’t expect the BIG heads that you get in the stores, your homegrown broccoli will be smaller – and tastier, since it’s [...]

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Another great gardening Sunday

So, the skies opened up for a little bit this morning as a mini-thunderstorm threw a hissy fit over Bloomington. Not quite enough to give us all the moisture we needed, but we’d already heard from Val that she was going to be at the garden at 4pm with a 60 gallon tank of water [...]

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Finally … photos

What a nice rain last night! Well, more like a thunderstorm … it tore a path through our back yard and knocked down all 8 of Paris’s corn stalks, and took out a couple of tomatoes too. Everywhere was a mess!
We drove by the community garden on our way to work/summer camp this morning [...]

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