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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I went to a local pollinator plant club event and helped package seeds today. If only I could get the same level of motivation to finish packing up my own. 🤪
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    Your 2026 Garden

    I made cattle panel trellises for my garden boxes last year, I love them.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Most of my seeds have broken ground! ❤️ I moved them under the grow lights, 🙏 they do better than last year!
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    Feeding Wild Birds

    I’ve had my Northern Flicker come visit a few times over the last week. He keeps banging on the building. At first I thought someone was doing maintenance on the roof. 😅 I have titmice that do something similar!
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Garlic needs to be vernalized (kept cold for a long period, usually through winter) to produce bulbs. That’s why it’s usually planted in the late fall. I’m told you can shove a couple bulbs in the fridge to vernalize them that way.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I planted some cat grass seeds today. Couldn’t find a good planter so I just repurposed a couple take-out containers.
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    Your 2026 Garden

    There are smaller varieties - the Silvery Fir seeds I got are only supposed to get around two feet tall, and I believe someone brought up microdwarf tomatoes a while back although I don’t remember the variety names off the top of my head. Tiny Tim maybe?
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Good luck! 🫂
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Guess what I found?!! I found it in one of my bags of cow manure. 😡 At first I thought it was glass again but on closer inspection it looks like ceramic. Lord help anyone who steps on a piece of it, and the poor cow that ate it. Dear Black Kow, if you are reading this I AM NOT PLEASED.
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Nice! Looking at anything in particular?
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    Your 2026 Garden

    I’ve done peppers without a heat mat but yeah they speed the process up by a LOT. Do you scarify the melon and squash seeds? I tried it last year and WOW they sprouted fast (within 3ish days IIRC).
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    Your 2026 Garden

    For context, I’m a container gardener. All my beans were in rolling boxes and had been using my deck railing as a trellis. The deck was getting power washed and everything had to be moved off of it. I have since made dedicated trellises and started paying more attention to the HOA maintenance...
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Most of my plants this year will have to be small and/or sturdy enough to move or quick growing as I’m having maintenance done in my main garden area. I had to unwind pole beans and cart them inside once, I do not recommend it! To that end I put some Iroquois Cornbread beans in pots a few days...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Good luck to you on the drought! Hand watering is tedious, that’s one of the reasons I’m looking into an irrigation kit. Hope you feel better soon! Thank you!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Happy New Year everyone! I have compiled my list of lessons learned from last season: My shade garden boxes need more consistent watering than I have been giving them. An irrigation kit might help with this. The soil in my boxes is poor (extremely low potassium, nitrogen). I purchased...
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