TechCowboys on May 29th, 2007

We’ve started getting the plants in the ground! In the Camrose plot are 15 pepper plants and 4 roma tomatoes, with more to go in on wednesday evening. In the Millwoods plot we have in onion and garlic and 3 types of carrots so far. more will go in tomorrow! Davin has decided he wants [...]

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TechCowboys on May 27th, 2007

The digging is done…though not the best thing to do for 6 hours straight right after spending 4 hours running around West Ed Mall doing the Unknown Challenge for Dell in the 2007 Edmonton Corporate Challenge Games this year… We started on the trellises and still have to attach the mesh. we ran away since [...]

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TechCowboys on May 24th, 2007

The weather is cold and wet, or dry and dust-stormy take your pick! We’ve been out to the Millwoods plot for a couple hours every evening this week so far. We picked up a load of scrap 2×4′s from the construction yard and replaced the really crappy scrap wood we found on monday night. so [...]

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TechCowboys on May 22nd, 2007

Just got back from the Millwoods plot and we got alot done tonight! Found some scrap wood and cut it to size so we have a little over half the boards needed for the frames of the beds. Got the peat moss bales x2…and those really were not fun to attempt to get out of [...]

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TechCowboys on May 21st, 2007

Spent all weekend working at the Camrose plot. Got all the beds finished up with added peat and perlite. We discovered the compost pile belonged to the city and they weren’t at work when we went to see about getting it. maybe we can get some this week sometime and top dress it in just [...]

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TechCowboys on May 14th, 2007

Here is the planned layout for my plot in the Millwoods community garden. Work will begin on that plot as soon as the school gets it all rototilled…hopefully this week sometime. the numbers for the veggies correspdond to the same list from earlier posts…

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TechCowboys on May 14th, 2007

Got out to the Camrose plot today for about 8 hours, and got a lot done. There are all the new pictures posted to the Picasa web album, so check them out! it’s come a long way from being a weed-choked plot a few weeks ago to where it’s now at. I think the addition [...]

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TechCowboys on May 11th, 2007

While digging through the garage I found some great stuff for the garden that will cut costs down – old orange tarps and rebar and steel piping. so now I can make orange mulch to increase the lycopene content of all the orange and red veggies, and make vertical trellises for some of the climbing [...]

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TechCowboys on May 9th, 2007

A week of bad weather sure slows down the prep at the Camrose site! As well, it put a halt to my efforts to start hardening off the seedlings. I got 1 good day of them being out for several hours in the coldframes and then it became too stormy, wet, and cold to bother [...]

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