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Three Sisters Garden
My neighbor was showing me through his vegetable garden yesterday and his prized area was what he called his Three Sisters Garden. Originally developed by Native Americans many centuries ago, the Three Sisters Garden has three main elements *duh…*. Sown together in a mound are corn (in this case sweet corn), climbing beans and squash. [...]
Planting Out my Cheap Plants
It was a month and two days since I potted up the seedlings I bought and blogged about in the Cheap Plants post. The time had come to plant them out in my garden around the pond. Over that month both the Vinca and the Hypoestes have grown fantastically strong root systems which will put them [...]
Make seedling pots from Newspaper
Browsing YouTube the other night I came across this great video on how to make seedling starter pots out of newspaper. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video At the end Willi Galloway says that you should take the seedling out of the pot. I think that if you dig [...]
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My name is Ben, and I'm a self confessed gardenoholic. My other interests include growing plants, looking at plants, drinking coffee and taking the odd photo. My wife thinks I'm mad, but is getting into the whole garden thing, possibly going mad as well. In my spare time I'm a geologist (must be something about dirt and rocks...)- Get me on Twitter
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