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The Urban Garden, 2014

July 4, 2014 By Food Retro

I didn’t say a lot about my garden for a while cause I had little to say, and suddenly there’s almost too much. My garden, a self-built cedar sub-irrigated planter (SIP) started a bit late due to lousy weather and a change of location. It was located on the badly-worn deck on the side of my…

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Filed Under: Greenish Thumb Things, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Health & Home, pests, sub-irrigated planter, The Urban Homestead, tomatoes

Homemade Wooden Self Watering Planters (A Comprehensive Guide)

February 28, 2014 By Food Retro

This is an amalgamation reposting of much of the information found on my site from last spring, and also part of the SIP 101 that I contributed to Homegrown.org. QUICK NAVIGATION Intro Important Notes Materials / Wood Cutting List Building Instructions Construction Photos Soilless Potting Mix Initial Fertilization and Starting Up Ongoing Feeding Pest control…

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Filed Under: Crafty Things, Greenish Thumb Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: how-to, Organic, pests, sub-irrigated planter, The Urban Homestead

Yellow Cucumbers

August 19, 2013 By Food Retro

Unlike some garden vegetables, cucumbers can be a bit of a puzzle.  Cucumbers don’t give as many obvious cues to a novice gardener that they’re ready to pick, and a great many ailments of the cucumber plant present similar symptoms. If your cucumbers are turning yellow, but the fruit is large and it and the…

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Filed Under: Greenish Thumb Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: fertilizing, pests, The Urban Homestead, troubleshooting

Flea Beetle

July 16, 2013 By Food Retro

Photo by: James Lindsey at Ecology of Commanster Unfortunately, not all of my garden insects are as relatively undestructive as the velvet mites and swallowtail caterpillars.  Fortunately, it appears that (in my garden) the most destructive pest’s preferred plants of choice are extremely limited, and my tomatoes are blithely unfazed that something is hole-ing their older…

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Filed Under: The Urban Homestead Tagged With: pests, The Urban Homestead

Black Swallowtail Caterpillars, Scourge of Dill

July 6, 2013 By Food Retro

I have no idea why I planted dill.  I like the way it smells and tastes, but I almost never use it.  Dried dill weed stays pretty potent for a long time, and I still can’t use up a small bottle of it before it starts going meh.  So imagine my chagrin when I give…

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Filed Under: Greenish Thumb Things, Science Gives Me A Hadron, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: pests, The Urban Homestead

Spinach Leafminer

May 30, 2013 By Food Retro

 I saw these flies around my garden about a month ago, but I paid them no real attention.  I thought they were ordinary house flies.  Boy was I wrong! Observe: the adult phase of the Spinach Leafminer (picture from Wikipedia.org), which began attacking my spinach a few weeks ago.  Even then, I didn’t pay much attention…

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Filed Under: Greenish Thumb Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Organic, pests, The Urban Homestead, troubleshooting

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