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Winthrop Estate
Aug 3, 20221 min read
Hi Tech
This cool gadget helps plant seeds. A little wheel in the black box turns as you push this along your row and it let's a few seeds each...
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Winthrop Estate
Jul 28, 20221 min read
Tall Deer Fence
Our fence is working well. We see evidence of deer around the property, but not inside the fence. This fences about 8' tall, and the...
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Winthrop Estate
Jul 26, 20221 min read
Baskets
Willows are great for making baskets. They are also very fast growing and provide pretty foliage for half the year that is good...
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Winthrop Estate
Jul 25, 20221 min read
Rabbit
This is not a picture of a rabbit, those cute furry animals who were after Mr. McGregor's gardens all the time. It's a picture of a...
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Winthrop Estate
Jul 24, 20221 min read
Evolved Thinking
Last year when I grew celery, I told my husband that if he ever juices my celery, I'm gonna give up. Juicing is basically taking the...
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Winthrop Estate
Jul 19, 20221 min read
Isles of Food
Rows and rows of food. Walking down these isles is soooo much more fun than walking down the grocery isles for me. There is so much...
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Winthrop Estate
Jul 19, 20221 min read
Bees
We don't take the bees for granted. We put calendula seeds all around the edge of the garden. They like their new home and have come up...
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Winthrop Estate
Jul 14, 20221 min read
Spring Onions
Folding at my knees, I'm sitting on my heels and the green of this onion comes up to my forehead. I could tell you in inches, but it's...
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Winthrop Estate
Jul 8, 20221 min read
Blackberry Bushes
We had to enlarge the blackberry cages again because the little bushes are growing up. Luckily we have not seen any animal impact (knock...
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Winthrop Estate
Jun 30, 20221 min read
Wood Chips
Many tree companies are happy to drop off fresh wood chips for free when they are in your area. This is the remainder of our second big...
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Winthrop Estate
Jun 22, 20221 min read
Companions
We planted onions and peppers in this row, as they like each other, and I'm happy to report, it looks like they are growing nicely.
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Winthrop Estate
Jun 13, 20221 min read
Trellis the Tomatoes
Our stakes are up and wires stretched! You can see all the rows where we planted tomatoes, ready for climbing vines! Cautiously...
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Winthrop Estate
Jun 10, 20221 min read
It's Alive!
We knew we were making a living fence when we cut some of our black locust trees and used them for fence posts. We didn't quite realize...
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Winthrop Estate
Jun 2, 20221 min read
Uh-oh!
We grew peppers from seed. We put them in tiny paper cups with soil and water, then sat them under grow lights, then after a few weeks,...
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Winthrop Estate
May 19, 20221 min read
Asparagus and Patience
We got 30 crowns of asparagus and put them in the ground about a week or so ago. I know we can't harvest until next year, so I wasn't...
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Winthrop Estate
May 10, 20221 min read
Blackberry Bushes are In!
Today we were able to get our new blackberry bushes in! These grow wild in our area so we thought it would be a good place to grow them...
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Winthrop Estate
May 1, 20221 min read
Upper Garden Walkways
Our upper garden now has fully mulched walkways! Yay. It's important that the vegetables have aerated, non-compacted dirt to explore...
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Winthrop Estate
Apr 24, 20221 min read
Solarizing
This looks a bit messy, but you can see we are trying to heat up the grass under the black plastic tarps this week so we can dig into the...
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Winthrop Estate
Apr 15, 20221 min read
Black Locust
We were very lucky our farmer pointed out that we have skinny straight black locust trees growing all over our property that could be...
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Winthrop Estate
Apr 11, 20221 min read
Heavy
We got crushed stone to put around the base of each post to make it more secure. Apparently the fence material I ordered is 400 pounds,...
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