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 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 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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TechCowboys on April 30th, 2007

Wow, now I’ve met the rototiller, and I’m pretty tired from it. It’s a good thing I weigh as much as I do or there would’ve been no chance of me running it as it would’ve run away with me. As it was, I just did a few rows of the garden to try it [...]

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