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Raised Beds – Part 3 – If you build it…

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Christy

Moving right along in our series on raised beds, we have now come to the part where sweat and elbow grease come in handy.

After a trip to the hardware store to pick up a non-rusted blade for our dusty Skilsaw (keeping in mind that Trex Decking can dull blades faster than wood), a box of 3 inch galvanized deck screws, a roll of 4 foot x 25 foot galvanized poultry fencing, tin snips, and two carloads of Trex Decking (19 12 foot boards were needed for our job), we were ready to build our raised beds.

On Day 1 – we opted to cut and assemble the beds before clearing the space of the old raised beds.
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Raised Beds – Part 2 – Design

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Christy
You may have caught the last edition of Raised Beds Part 1, where we talked about materials for building raised beds.  Now we move on to Part 2 – 
Design. 

There are an infinite assortment of ideas in the world for raised beds.  I happen to be, much to my husband’s chagrin, severely influenced by formal English gardens with closely trimmed boxwood
hedges and topiaries and espaliered fig trees on the wall.  We have a ranch house, so that kind of formality doesn’t fly in our back yard.  However, I really really wanted something that
made my heart …

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Houseplant Killer – Qu’est que c’est?

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Christy
A concerned houseplant owns writes in:

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A Sentimental Tree

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Christy
A concerned gardener writes in:


“[My daughter] has a tree she planted from
seed.  I’m not sure what it is, at one point thought it was a Chinese Elm.  It has completely outgrown the huge pot it was in (cracked it in half wide open), and is much too large for us to
keep in the pot, and no where to plant it.  The tree is somewhat sentimental (if trees can be that – it is to us, we’re weird).  Is there anyway I can keep part
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Indoor herb gardening

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Christy

While Spring is just around the corner, many people are itching to have fresh herbs at the ready.  In places where temperatures remain chilly at least until April, what’s a NYC foodie to do?  Her question reads: “What do you suggest for … Continue reading →

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