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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

Madness, May Showers, Mud, and Mess

May 8, 2014 By Food Retro

I missed my usual Wednesday post. I’m sorry. There was a lot going on that day and I decided I was actually too angry to write about it without saying a lot of things I’d probably regret. I’m sort of obligated to maintain a family friendly rating! I was at a nutrition committee meeting at…

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Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: indoor gardening, sub-irrigated planter, Tales, The Urban Homestead

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

RIP Tomatoes, I felt I hardly knew ye.

July 24, 2013 By Food Retro

I was hoping I was wrong, but alas, I was not.  My tomato plants are keeling over.  It was a complicated set of circumstances that ultimately boiled down to one thing… too much water. Last week, we had our famous trademark Canadian “Holy Crap, It Really Gets That Hot?!” weather.  I was absent for a…

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Filed Under: Greenish Thumb Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: oops, sub-irrigated planter, The Urban Homestead, troubleshooting

Fertilizing a Sub-Irrigated Planter (Update, end of June)

July 1, 2013 By Food Retro

If you read my article about 6 weeks ago, I figured it’s time for an update on how my fertilizing is going.  The answer seems to be A-OK. Just to recap: When I put the soil in the planter, I sowed it with a slow-release organic granular fertilizer (7-2-5).  Though there was dolomite calcium included…

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Filed Under: Greenish Thumb Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: fertilizer, planter, sub-irrigated planter, The Urban Homestead

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