Wow, July was a very dry month for us here in Missouri…although the total amount of rainfall was near normal…that 3 inches all came in the first few days of the month…and then nothing for the rest of the month. Things have struggled in the drought and heat this month…there were several weeks of very [...]
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Last Updated August 18, 2011 Here are the current food growing totals…as well as last years totals so you can compare how we are doing. We are definietly behind for the year, but I have started a bunch of fall crops and hope to make up the harvest in a month or two.
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Today I had the house to myself and I decided to embark on my first Jamalama (Jam making and canning) I’m doing Serviceberry and Strawberry. Of course the first thing you must do when jammin’ is turn the music mix up real loud…I hope you like Jammin’ too…we’re jammin’ he he
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May was a great month for the garden! I spent a lot of time out there and am pleased that it looks as good as it does. It has rained quite a bit and everything is extremely green! I stepped back for some of these photos so you can see the design of the garden [...]
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Here is a collection of photo’s showing what is in flower in my garden during September 2010 Its getting close to fall but there is still a lot of diversity in the showy flowers and plants this time of year.
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Time for another tour of the garden! June is a big month for the garden!!! Things that were small in the beginning of the month are huge now. Beans and corn that were still seeds a month ago are now over 5 feet tall! Here is a gallery of photos I took, mostly from June 21st (solstice) [...]
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Deer Resistance So one of the most asked questions I hear from people in areas with deer is ‘what can I plant that the deer won’t eat!” This is tough for many reasons…deer eat things where they found something edible before (like if they eat your vegetables…and next year you plant poisonous plants there in [...]
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2010 EDIBLE LANDSCAPE PLAN DRAWING 11X17 click this link to download I thought it was very important for you to have access to the garden design for the Sprawlstainable Garden. This drawing shows the entire site, the legend to all the edible plantings of fruits and vegetables, the house, the gardens, the patios, etc. The download [...]
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These are the amounts I am using to calculate how much the food we grew would have cost if we would have bought it at the store. I got the majority of these numbers by pricing organic produce during May and June 2010 at the Whole Foods Market in Town and Country, Missouri. It would probably [...]
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I was asked to share some snapshots of the garden, so I have put together a gallery of images from the last two weeks. I included both edibles and ornamentals. I am looking forward to the season progressing, and you will get to see how big the veggies get, and how well the flowers do [...]
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