Friends: Heathcote Botanical Garden’s Community Garden

Posted by Adina Photos by Nan and Adina Heathcote Botanical Garden recently decided to create a community garden. I was fortunate to be at the first meeting about a year ago, and I was able to get involved with this project at the beginning. This community garden is currently focused on growing for a Sarah’s Kitchen in Port [...]

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Friends’ and Clients’ Gardens: My Neighbors’ Fabulous Garden

Posted by Adina To get the full impact of the story of my Neighbors’ Fabulous Garden it is necessary to go back in time at least several years. By the time this story takes place we have been living next door a long time, and are close friends with our neighbors. We are both intense gardeners. As soon as [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ [...]

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In The Garden: Growing Legumes

Posted by Adina Legumes are a family of plants that includes beans and peas, peanuts and clovers. The Florida native ground cover Perennial Peanut is a legume. The Pigeon Pea plant, though it is a perennial bush is a true legume, and it shares the characteristic of legumes that makes that plant extremely desirable in the garden. [...]

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The No Till No Dig Way: Revisiting The Lasagna Garden Mound

Posted by Adina The quickest way to get your garden growing in a hurry and without any previous plan is to build a lasagna garden or mound. I have written the recipe for this in the article The No Dig Garden Box, and I thought since I find myself talking about this garden so frequently and my old [...]

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In The Garden: Companion Planting

Posted by Adina I have been studying companion planting in the garden. With a single google search you or I can come up with myriad charts for companion planting, so I see no reason to repeat that arrangement of information. Rather I am going to write about how I am grouping the vegetables I am planting this year [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ [...]

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In The Garden: Summer 2009

Posted by Adina Here’s what’s going on in the garden this summer of 2009. I am growing okra, black eye peas, peanuts, green peppers and sweet potatoes as well as my perennial, asparagus. Long Beans have just quit, and new long beans are in the ground. It is perfect timing for some new seeds, so I put in [...]

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In The Garden: Growing Sweet Potatoes

Posted by Adina This is a great time to be growing Sweet Potatoes in the garden. They don’t mind the weather this hot,and as long as they are in well drained soil they can take whatever rain we are getting. Sweet Potato slips planted now (July) here in S. Florida would be ready in time for Autumn dinners, [...]

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Harvests

Posted by Adina This growing season has been fabulous so far. Great food has been coming into my kitchen from the garden everyday, and there has been lots of surplus to sell off or share. We are deeply grateful. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Harvests", url: "http://manuredepot.com/harvests/" });

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