What Will Be the New Kale?

October 31, 2014

...ve its fifteen minutes of fame as the new kale. The Salinas, California based Foxy Organic is, quite sensibly, marketing broccoli leaves. Broccoli leaves are indeed edible and tasty. Foxy has the recursive media to prove it, a Facebook photo of someone Instagramming Broccoli leaves: Now I’ve just blogged about someone Facebooking about someone Instagramming Broccoli leaves. How far can we take this? Will broccoli leaves act as the gateway vegetabl...

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End of Season Tomato Review

Mr. Homegrown

November 26, 2008

Gardening, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening

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...al partial shade conditions, they weren’t that tasty. See also our earlier reviews of Banana Leg and Red Currant varieties. Most of the tomatoes were grown in cages made from concrete reinforcing wire (instructions on making tomato cages here) in raised beds with a drip irrigation system as pictured above. As an experiment for folks in apartments or with limited space, we grew a bunch of tomatoes in self watering containers on a strip of concrete...

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Cutting Dovetail Joints With a Router Jig

Mr. Homegrown

January 5, 2018

Design

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...at I needed to cut some dovetails. Dovetail joints are used most often for making drawers. The arrangement of the joint makes for a drawer that resists racking. Dovetail joints also prevent the front from coming off with repeated use. Even without glue the joint wants to stay together. It’s also, I think, very attractive. The two most common dovetail joints are through dovetails: Image: Wikipedia. And half-blind dovetails: Image: Wikipedia. Since...

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Maggots!

Mr. Homegrown

July 29, 2006

Composting, Gardening

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...e and creating room for additional materials. This aeration, combined with making sure to keep the pile moist produced a hot pile that kept the pests away and produced a high quality compost in a relatively short period of time – a few months. You can find instructions on how to build this type of compost system with used pallets on this web site. Other composting systems include the lazy person’s single plastic bin, which you can make out of a ga...

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Saturday Tweets: Rocket Emissions, Tarkovsky and Borges Quoting Furby

Mr. Homegrown

December 15, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...many who read it. Which is way better than anxiety, for us and for 🌍 Local bookstore is best, but here's a convenient link w reviews:https://t.co/LhmCbzTHGC — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) December 8, 2018 $30 plug-and-play kit converts a Bird scooter into a "personal scooter" https://t.co/1S7yFLKjay — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 8, 2018 St Lucy [Francesco del Cossa, 1472-73] pic.twitter.com/u8TpvnXcKH — Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) Decem...

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