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Pumpkin Check-up

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At the beginning of August we talked about hand pollinating pumpkins (you can read about it HERE).  You might remember I had one little problem when I went out to make baby pumpkins.  I only had male flowers and didn't see any female flowers.  After a few days of...

Rainy Day Nursery Visit – Ravenna Gardens

It has been an AMAZING summer. Even today I sit outside to write this post I can feel the sun on my face and a warm breeze in my hair. For those of you unfamiliar with the PNW it can be sweatshirts and wool socks all the way through August sometimes. Not this year...

Why Community Gardens are Important?

Over the last few months we've been following along with and visiting community garden's in our area and afield.  You might be wondering why we are devoting so much time to this topic so I wanted to share more about it.  It's been pretty eye opening for me as I begin...

Community Garden: Peterson Update

Well, it's finally happened, we are starting to harvest veg from our community garden plots.  I visited the Peterson Community Garden with my friend Megan this past Friday and the amount of produce that is now available through out the garden is impressive.  Megan...

Albany Park Tomatoes

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Spring and summer have been off to slow start where we are but that is not deterring our tomatoes!  We've got lots of tomatoes coming in and ripening quickly.  Beside the few pictured here we also have Brandy Wine and Amish Mom tomatoes coming right along. Here are...

Community Garden – Oregon

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I'm not sure if this should be a 'Traveling Plantswoman" post or not. I was traveling with my sister and her friend and I don't usually visit many gardens when I travel with other folks. We normally focus hiking, golfing, and hot tubbig so as not to bore my companions...

Little Bytes: Herb Butter

Are you ready to harvest some herbs? By now the herbs we started in the spring should be growing strongly and have good depth of flavor. Today let's use them in a very simple way... herb butter!  You can find herb butter in many restaurants across the nation used on...

Garden Archeology

"Landscape archaeology is the study of the ways in which people in the past constructed and used the environment around them. Landscape archaeology is inherently multidisciplinary in its approach to the study of culture, and is used by both pre-historical, classic,...

Borrowed Garden

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Working in my once neglected garden I feel a little like a garden archeologist. Yes there really is such a thing. The garden I have now was once someone's favorite project. The man who used to live here 15 years ago spent time creating this garden. He dug 3 ponds, had...

Fine Gardening Magazine

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