February 2011
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Saturday's Harvest
Saturday we visited our plot for the first time in over a week, and this is what we found. It’s quite a happy sight, isn’t it?  What you’re looking at is mustard greens, rainbow chard, golden beets and New Zealand spinach.  We’re drowning in green stuff. (Not as serene as the white stuff that’s burying our friends and family, but still pretty good.) A close up...
Feb 1st
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January 2011
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Jan 20th
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Link: When a Community Garden Isn't So Rosy (L.A.... →
Just about everything in this article sounds familiar to me. We waited two years to get our plot, and our own garden neighbor has a habit of working in short bursts, then letting her plot go fallow and weedy for weeks or months at a time.  Actually, both our neighbors are like this.  We’re forever trimming their expanding rose bushes and pulling up the tall grasses that crawl under their...
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