The garden is going insane!!!  The squash are encroaching on the tomatoes.  The tomatoes are snaking through the squash and the peppers.  Those seed packages are not kidding when they say to space out your squash. I had decided that the zucchini were never going to produce fruit, but then they exploded.  They’re even flowering, [...]

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The garden has started producing!  I have officially harvested three tomatoes and lots of basil.  Here are my spoils from last Sunday.  The blackberries were planted last year by the last people to live in the house.  Thank goodness we didn’t assume the plants were weeds! The former residents also planted green grapes that are [...]

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So, you remember how I was growing plants indoors?  Well, I transplanted them and most of them died.  I guess I needed to grow them inside longer so the root structure is more stable.  Currently there are two peppers and one sad looking artichoke from that initial planting.  Here’s one of the peppers, little trooper. [...]

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On June 13, 2010, Chevron’s oil pipe leaked 33,000 gallons of oil into the Red Butte Creek.  This oil emptied into the pond at Liberty Park and eventually seeped into the Jordan River.  Yesterday, I went to Liberty Park to survey the damage. The pond looks pretty good, there is no obvious oil sheen.  The [...]

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I’ve started my garden!  First you use a pitchfork to turn the soil underneath.

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Now that I have my first house, it’s time to start gardening.  I know almost nothing about gardening, but I really like vegetables.  I can’t wait to harvest tomatoes and zucchini from the garden.  This is where the garden is going to go:

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