Archive for the ‘gardening’ Category

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Each year I try to grow more than the last…

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I had some old seed and wondered if it would still grow.   Some of the seed was 8 years old and the rest were 7 years old.  Is that too old to germinate?

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Free rock used as a garden border.

Free rock used as a garden border.

Garden update… Video included.

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I keep my seeds in cigar boxes.

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Buckwheat growing in my Arkansas garden, Oct-31-2010.

Buckwheat growing in my Arkansas garden, Oct-31-2010.

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Making cabbage juice with a Sharper Image HR-650-1

Making cabbage juice with a Sharper Image HR-650-1

I’ve been having fun making fresh juice at home with raw produce. In the videos here, I show how this machine makes juice with carrots, collards, watermelon, strawberries, apples, and cabbage.

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How do you propagate a tomato plant?  It’s really simple.  Just cut a branch off an established tomato plant and put that branch in some water.  Come back in about 10 days and it should have roots.

Video after the break…

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Green Bean blossom, Tendergreen Bush variety

This is how my green bean plants looked on Nov-11-2010.  They had sustained frost damage, but were still putting out blossoms.  Video follows the break…

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It was an unusual treat to have a watermelon this time of year.

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Covering green beans with an old bed sheet saved these young plants from freezing to death.

Covering green beans with an old bed sheet saved these young plants from freezing to death.

Watch the video to see how the plants were protected when the temp dropped down to 30 F last night, below freezing.

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