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Someone on a gardening forum I visit posted a link to a method of growing potatoes in basically a box, adding height and soil to the box as the plant grows to encourage more growth. I have heard of this, but didn’t have time to try it last year and of course forgot about it. I think I’ll make one and put it next to my regularly planted potatoes and do a little experiment to see if it actually produces better! The link? http://www.gardencityseeds.net/growers1.php Enjoy! 
Since I haven’t ever gardened at the same time I had a wood stove or fireplace, I never needed to look this up, but I was curious tonight if our ashes from the fireplace would be beneficial, or at least safe, for the compost. The next door neighbor and I chatted a bit about gardening tonight and he was ecstatic about our garden spot, the people who lived here before had an excellent garden for years and they let him grown what turned out to be the biggest, best corn he’s ever seen. Other information is the rest of our yard is useless to garden as is, it’s all clay (but we knew that)…. So it doesn’t sound like there’s a need to buy compost or do a bunch of amendments, and after a quick Google search showing fireplace ash is good for raising the PH of soil, I think we’ll add some to the compost, but not much. And mix it in well. So far the composter has grass, leaves, and a whole bunch of kitchen scraps like egg shells, potato peels, apple peels and cores, banana peels, coffee grounds, carrot and celery ends, etc. Add in a little ash and we’ll have a nifty little worm food party. Still kicking myself for leaving the compost at the old house!
I remembered today that I promised my 13 year old I’d grow cherry tomatoes next time. Well, it’s next time :lol and I’m not sure what kind to get. Territorial Seed has a pretty big selection I think, any suggestions? (link goes to the cherry tomato category on their site, opens in new window) Thank you for your help!
It snowed again :lol And now it’s almost 50 degrees, but my 11 year old son managed to get out in time and make a snow man. Being the bad blogger and mom that I am, I forgot to get pictures Hey, at least before the ice age in a couple hundred years it’ll be nice and tropical in Canada, eh?
The lettuce decided to start growing true leaves after today’s watering.
However, they are leaning a lot to reach the light since we only have one:
But it’s enough to grow things so I’m happy. More celery is coming up, the onions are all showing green stems and we now have tomatoes sprouting:
They look a little pale and weak I think, I’ll watch them carefully. I thinned out a few lettuce and cabbage, even as thin as my fingers are I still managed to get too many seeds in a couple spots, one had 6 in the same spot. Oops. I should have used the tweezers like I thought of last year! In other news, we got a wicked rain storm that knocked out our DSL for a few hours yesterday and all night til after noon today, but my 2 year old didn’t mind a bit:
Oh to be 2 again :lol It took me 20 minutes to get all the mud off the kitchen floor when he came in, and we stripped him right at the door and took him to a nice warm bath!
I can’t leave well enough alone and am giving Garden of Eatin’ a new design. I’m also getting rid of the Google ads to save page load time. I’ve added a “related posts” plug in to the bottom of each post that parses all my posts and pages and comes up with the closest matches. I’ll also be adding actual categories to the blog to help readers find information that way. Stay tuned, it’ll still be the same Garden of Eatin’, just improved a bit (……..I hope).
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I would bet money if I had it that’ll we’ll get another snow before April the way this climate change is going. I know it’s not the worst or best winter ever, but worldwide, things are changing.
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