Staycationing

June 10, 2008

...Due to some sloppy utility work (thanks for the outsourcing DWP!), our phone and internet service are out for the next few days. Mrs. Homegrown Evolution is in San Francisco with our only cell phone. To those of you who have ordered books I apologize for the delay....

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How to Stake Tomatoes

Mr. Homegrown

April 5, 2007

Gardening, How-to, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening

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Our tomato staking method around the Homegrown Evolution compound is simple and lazy. We plant our tomatoes and then surround them with rolled up concrete reinforcing wire. Normally used to reinforce concrete slabs, reinforcing wire comes in 3 1/2′ by 7′ sections. We use a circular saw with a metal blade on it to cut off the bottom rung, so as to leave spiky wires with which to stick the reinforcing wire tubes into the ground, but this is not abs...

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Sourdough Recipe #1 The Not Very Whole Wheat Loaf

Mr. Homegrown

March 14, 2007

Bread, Food, Recipes

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...work with than bad-ass white flour). In the meantime here’s the Homegrown Evolution Not Very Whole Wheat Loaf based on a recipe by Nancy Silverton. You can use either our whole wheat starter or our white starter. And though the instructions are long, this is an easy recipe assuming that you have been good about feeding your starter every day and keeping it in a warm place. Though far less complicated than manufacturing meth amphetamines (not that...

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Damned Figs!

Mr. Homegrown

March 14, 2008

Gardening

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...aw Olmstead cut down a few thousand to build Central Park after all. More on our new front yard orchard soon (which, of course, includes a fig tree). UPDATE: Homegrown Evolution reader Krystel sent us a link to a very amusing site, God Hates Figs....

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