TechCowboys on May 20th, 2008

Wow, has May been busy. Running 2 gardens both an hour away from my home (plus training for a marathon in august) makes for one incredibly busy schedule on top of the usual working and family life. We’ll start with experiments for the front yard this year: Mini-Greenhouses: I bought 2 of these from Home [...]

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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 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 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 23rd, 2007

I’ve been keeping a keen eye on the local freecycling list at Yahoo for materials I can recycle in the garden. As my budget for building the hardware needed to setup a specifically square foot garden is extremely limited, I need to use reclaimed materials as much as possible. I’m hoping the only costs would [...]

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