Coming up: The GreenNet Green and Growing Fair

GreenNet Green and Growing Fair
April 24th, 2010, 10:00-3:00 at the
Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N. Central Park
Chicago, IL


This is the part I think my kids will like:
(snip)
Kid's Activities in Children's Garden:
Plant a Pizza Garden to Take Home! 11 am to 3 pm


Grow your own pizza by planting ingredients in a take-home container-basil, tomatoes, green peppers, and more! Also, learn about plant parts and define the parts used in pizza.

Pickle Garden

It's 29 degrees Fahrenheit in Oak Park today but I'm dreaming of warm weather and pickles.  What is your favorite pickling cucumber?  What is your favorite pickle recipe?  I just tasted some (store bought) spicy pickles, delicious!

Seeds are in

At the Home Depot last night, saw that the seed display was in already.  This is my first choice for my 2010 garden!  Pickles!!!!!!

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Seeds Obsession Starting

I'm starting to get some catalogs of seeds and I'm starting to plan out what I want to put in the garden this year.  The variety is great but also makes for hard decisions.  I'm trying also to figure out how much I want to start from seed, and also what set up I might use for the indoor seed starting.  I'm also trying to be super-cheap about this, as I spent quite a bit last year on the raised gardens.

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Mulching the leaves directly into the garden beds.

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New for fall

Cleaned up a few spaces in the garden beds and threw down some peas and lettuce. I'm not too hopeful about the peas but maybe the lettuce will come through.

Back from vacation

Here is what we pulled after a week away. Unfortunately, the rat-squirrels realized my sweet corn was ready and pillaged most of it. Very sad for us (tear runs down my cheek).
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