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Getting Back On The Horse That Is Falling Off The Wagon | Philosophers and Ploughmen
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Getting Back On The Horse That Is Falling Off The Wagon. March 22, 2015. I love muddled metaphors. Even more so if you can throw in some hyphenated expletives for a little flavor. Though the blogging waned, the garden last year did not. Here is the tally from 2014:. Beets – 2 lb 10 oz. Kohlrabi -4 oz (failed). Kale – 15 oz. Green Beans – 13 lb 7 oz. Squash – 26 lb 11 oz. Zucchini – 17 lb 1 oz. Peas – 6 oz (Kiddo kept eating them off the plants). Cucumber – 17 lbs 3 oz. Cherry Tomato – 4 lb 1 oz. Sure I m...
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Resources | Philosophers and Ploughmen
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The pages listed below or in the drop-down above are some of my favorite and/or most used resources for supplies, information, etc. They are by no means an endorsement or meant to exclude, it’s just the stuff I’ve come to use, enjoy and learn from. So check ’em out…or don’t, it’s a free country after all. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. That�...
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Still Kicking | Philosophers and Ploughmen
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August 24, 2014. It has been well over a month since the last post…hell, almost two now. My aspirations to blog regularly may have been a bit much, well that and a non-functional computer which doesn’t help much. So here is the readily abridged, short short version of the last month and change. As of this post, we have harvested over 90 pounds of vegetables. Not nine…. Nine with a zero tacked on the end. This still amazes me. We’ve always had decent returns from the garden, but not like this. Iowa Jim, w...
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Books | Philosophers and Ploughmen
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This is a running list, so it will continue to grow. I have not added any books that I haven’t read, but please feel free to add your own favorites to the comments below. Some of these books could easily fall into multiple categories, but you get the idea. The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible. Odale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. Bradley, Ellis, and Phillips, eds. Series), Edited by Eliot Wigginton and Students. Vertical Vegetables and Fruit. The Gardener’s A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food.
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Where the Wildish Things Are | Philosophers and Ploughmen
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Where the Wildish Things Are. April 13, 2014. Spoiler alert: This post has nothing to do with gardening, just some pics from my weekend adventures. Parker’s Creek Natural Area. Looking north along the Chesapeake Bay, the sand bar shows the mouth of Parker’s Creek. A portion of the tidal, brackish section of the creek. A red throated loon, a juvenile I believe. From the creek looking out to the bay. Bacon Ridge Natural Area. The old willow pond. Skunk cabbage coming up in the marsh. Roll Up Yer Sleeves.
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Roll Up Yer Sleeves | Philosophers and Ploughmen
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Roll Up Yer Sleeves. April 6, 2014. At long last, warmer weather has finally arrived! Spring is here in all its sniffle-inducing, eye-watering glory. And we all know what that means: time to knock the rust off and get to work. Our short grass prairie. Home to the world’s tiniest bison. I was very pleased to see how well the rye worked as both a cover crop and weed inhibitor, read about that here. The garden, pre-shave and a haircut. The garden, with a fresh cut, ready for some earth-work. 5 responses to ...
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Seeds | Philosophers and Ploughmen
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Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (VA) www.southernexposure.com. High Mowing Organic Seeds (VT) www.highmowingseeds.com. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (MO) www.rareseeds.com. Seed Savers Exchange (IA) www.seedsavers.org. Territorial Seed CO. (OR) www.territorialseed.com. International Seed Saving Institute www.seedsave.org. Extension – Organic Seed Resource Guide www.extension.org. Organic Seed Alliance www.seedalliance.org. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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“I Wanna Easter Egg!” | Philosophers and Ploughmen
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8220;I Wanna Easter Egg! April 20, 2014. So yesterday we dyed our Easter eggs with the Munchkin, but this year my wife found some recipes to make the dyes ourselves naturally. While a little time consuming, this turned into a fun experiment with hypotheses formed about which color would work and which wouldn’t. Score one for me for getting my wife to do science and have fun. (. Let me preface the rest with this: I’m sure there are other and better ways to do this (if you know, share! Something fun to do ...
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Tiny Invading Forces | Philosophers and Ploughmen
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June 1, 2014. So far the noticeable pests (and by this I mean I found huge chunks of plants missing during my walk-about in the garden) have been cabbage moth caterpillars and what I’m pretty sure are a type of striped potato beetle. Can you spot the culprit? Cabbage worm on the kohlrabi. Sounds like a good song title. 8220;What’s that jackass doing vacuuming his plants? This worked so well I didn’t really care what it looked like to the neighbors. And of course what’s a post without a Munchkin pic?
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A Random Act of Kindness | Philosophers and Ploughmen
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A Random Act of Kindness. May 20, 2014. Today is not a gardening post, but rather a short thank you to a stranger on a random act of kindness. On a residential job site, my co-worker and I met our client so that he could show us around the property before we started his survey. For those who haven’t caught this in older posts. I am a land surveyor by day, ninja gardener by night. Whether they need it or not. Tags: Exercises in Surveying. Not a gardening post. Random acts of kindness. Liked by 1 person.