June 2009

Co-ops and Dinner Swaps

Saving Time

People are made to depend on other people. Yes, you *can* do it all on your own, but that’s not really feasible or preferable in most cases. Isolation is not the goal. A community of people all doing things the old fashioned way broadens our ability to live simply. So for today’s post, I’d like [...]

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Interplanting for Maximum Harvest

Free Plans & Printables

picture by Julie Interplanting sounds fancy, but it just means planting different things together. Like, instead of planting only corn, you planted spinach in between the corn stalks. And the corn shades heat-hating spinach from the hot summer sun. That would be the planned version. Mine and TL’s version of interplanting is better categorized as [...]

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How to Grow Healthy Tomatoes

Beginner Gardens

Start reading about tomato pests and diseases and you begin to wonder how any tomato ever makes it at all. After weeks of episodic rain my tomato plants are growing like kudzu, but I noticed something this morning that sent me looking for fungicide recipes: yellowing around large brown spots on the lower leaves of [...]

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