Learning to Grow
Our journey growing our own food and designing solutions to support a more sustainable life.
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How To Manage Fire Ants Without Pesticide
Ants Are Everywhere – Just Ignore Them Spring, Texas, USA We can live in peace with the ants if we establish boundaries. The best management method for fire ants is ignorance. Ignore ants. If you live in fire ant country, your ground will be infested with ants. Just accept this reality. But, do not despair. …
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What To Do When Okra Fall Down
Trim Okra When They Fall Over Spring, TX When Okra grow too tall and topple over, cut them to a height that will allow them to stand tall. Okra can grow and grow in the summer heat down here in the Houston area. And usually toward the end of summer they will start to…
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Okra Garden Supply Lunch
Fried Okra are easy as can be, slice, toss in corn meal and salt and pepper, fry, eat. Lunch, done.
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Prepare For Okra
Okra Plants Starting To Produce Spring, TX My ego knows no bounds and so I say with a full voice, “Prepare for Okra!” We might be verging on pod a day harvests. Or more! Ah, don’t get too excited. While we ate the first Okra of the season in a wonderful Okra Garden Supply Lunch,…
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Okra Garden Supply Newsletter #1
Thank You Beatrice! Spring, TX Dear Beatrice, Thank you very much for joining the email list. Though you are not a stranger, you were not yet a friend either, and yet you signed up for my email newsletter. Someday a total stranger from the internet will join the email list too, and then we will…
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Okra Fruited
My saved seed has germinated, transplanted, flowered, and fruited. Spring, TX Hooray. Okra for Okra Garden Supply. I have to celebrate this First Okra of 2017 because this plant is the namesake of the shop. The feeling of completing the cycle of growth in our own yard is calm and pleasant. I grew a plant,…
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Collard Greens: Garden to Freezer
What to do with collard greens from the garden or grocery Location: SPRING, TX I am grateful for collards. Thank you, collards. If you are lucky enough to have collards to eat, enjoy them. This post is my method for taking the leaves from garden to the freezer to your mouth every morning for an…
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What is the EPA CDX UserID: My experience with the EPA CDX
My story with the EPA Washington D. C., USA: Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Step One: Give up your rights I sent a letter to the EPA requesting a company number and within two weeks received a response via email with a company number and an additional contact. Yay. The next step is to get an…
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How far apart should I plant vegetable starts?
Plants need room to grow Location: Houston, TX Have a little daydream when you plant your vegetable start. This is the best way to ensure that the tender shoot will have the proper amount of space to grow. Imagine the plant in its full blown glory. Leaves and blossoms and fruit all at once. The…
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Just Keep Planting
There is No Such Thing As Disappointment In The Garden Thursday was supposed to be my planting day. That was my big Okra Garden Supply Plan. Plant on Thursday. I have lost momentum on that, I don’t think I have planted in three weeks. But I have made progress on the e commerce front. Did you notice these…