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Easy Container Gardening: Buying Soil and Starts
Continuing on with my easy container gardening week! You have picked out your containers and found a suitable location for them. Next, it's time to go to the store to buy soil and your herb and...
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Easy Container Gardening: Combining Herbs and Vegetables
Herbs are the easiest thing you can grow. And combining them with other vegetables in your pot, will not only look beautiful, they will repel pests!Image from friendsfoodreview.comSince this is easy...
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Easy Container Gardening: How to not kill your plants
You have everything you need to get your easy-container-garden setup, now the pressure is on! Don't kill your plants!On no, Aphids!Here are the basics:Watering:You may want to purchase a watering can...
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Tomato Tuesday: Too Hot For Ripening!
Summer has arrived in Seattle! This week, we will see our hottest temperatures this season. Every day will average above 80 degrees.As you recall in this post, tomatoes need temperatures ranging from...
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Garden Fresh: Infused Vodka
Earlier this year, I admitted that most of the food and drink "recipes" I share would be quick and easy, but gosh, I'm really stickin' to it. Kale chips, chive oil, mint ice cubes and now infused vodka...
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Blog Plans for the Winter
I've been receiving a lot of questions on how I plan to keep my blog going this winter.I'm moving from tips and tricks, to trial and errors.My goal, this gloomy winter, is to maintain a garden. Eating...
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Tomato Tuesday: Speed up the Ripening!
I really prefer to let my tomatoes ripen on the vine for flavor, but I get so nervous that something is going to happen to them! I wish I could wrap them in some sort of armor...with a padlock. I mean...
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Tomato Tuesday: Fried Green Tomatoes
As the summer comes to an end, and you gaze at your green tomatoes still left, try not to shed a tear. For I have the best fried green tomatoes recipe for you.My sister-in-laws are a force to be...
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Fall Gardening
Temperatures are dropping, and our summer gardening season is coming to an end. This sure doesn't mean you need to stop gardening.my garden todayThe first frost day in Seattle usually occurs around...
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Tomato Tuesday: Saving Seeds
I don't know about you, but I am a very disorganized gardener. I plant things at random and never write down what I planted or where I got the seeds from!I wonder what these are!At the end of the...
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A Bath Bouquet
Have you ever been to a eucalyptus steam room? How about soaking your feet in lavender sea salts? It relaxes you instantly.Now you can feel like that every time you take a shower. picture adapted from...
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Tomato Tuesday: Time to harvest
Well Seattle, the rain is here.That means it's time to harvest all your tomatoes. Although the temperatures are still warm enough during the day and night to allow you tomatoes to ripen on the vine,...
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Growing Your Own Oyster Mushrooms
Who knew it was so easy to grow your own edible mushrooms at home! I'm always looking for new ways to eat fresh food that I grow. Not to mention keeping up my need to "garden" in the winter. Have you...
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Homemade Tortilla Chips
In preparation for my salsa post tomorrow, I thought I would share some tips on making your own tortilla chips.I rarely buy tortilla chips, it's so easy to make your own and nothing can...
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Tomato Tuesday: Salsa!
Back in my college years, my then roommates and I worked at a Mexican restaurant and they had the best salsa!Since we were poor and the salsa was free, it was pretty much all we ate. The amount of...
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Oyster Mushroom Update
I wanted to share an update on my oyster mushrooms. See this post for referenceIt has been exactly one week since I started my kit, can you believe it?Want to try it? Here is where I got my kit:...
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Fall Gardening Continued
How is your fall garden going? Mine is slow. I have lettuce, arugula, beets, and surprisingly, some peas.Peas aside, the three vegetables I am growing should be able to do well down to 20 degrees F....
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Preparing your Garden for the Winter
Maybe you have had it with gardening for the year.I'm close to throwing in the towel, but I won't. In fact, I have a tomato plant growing inside right now. I'm using a hydroponics system called an...
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Growing Experiments
It's about to get really interesting here at desperategardener.com. It's that time of year, when I try to grow just about anything to see if I can do it. What's on my list you ask?persimmonOh, the...
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Growing an Almond Tree
Hopefully, you haven't been holding your breath since my last post.This winter, I have been attempting to grow various plants indoors and finally have some success to share with you! My attempt to grow...
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