Above is the leavings from the garden last year. We learned how much work it is to have a garden and what works in our limited area. Peppers and tomatoes work really well there so that is what we are going to go with this year. I had been dreading cleaning up the old garden. […]

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Big fan of Urban trail gardens by my house, but they had a weak selection. Farmers markets were meh.. Got some bitching strawberries at ACE hardware on 27th and Normal Buts I needs mores. I was thinking of that place about 1st and Old Cheney with the rows of greenhouses. Any suggestions? Asking over on […]

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We are pretty lucky to have urban trail gardens a 1/2 block from us. We made our 4th or so trip there this weekend and got some pretty darn cool stuff. Two types of basil, one the purple pictured above, and one that was called lemon basil. The purple has amazing aroma. According to the […]

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Often called a wandering jew plant, the Tradescantia zebrina has been our favorite ground cover for years. We start early in the season by making tons of cuttings and then just populate like crazy covering ground out front. We did the tree ring this year as well. It it the uber weed. You can just […]

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Years back we put some bulbs around the mailbox with some plastic edging and rocks. They have been doing great, but the edging was tore up and the grass had invaded bad. So we picked up 35 paver stones and 2 bags of paver sand. Hours of digging, crawling, sweating, and quick trip to Urban […]

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Man it is one of my most favorite plants, and I have a bunch, but calling it wandering jew is….. well uncomfortable. It is Tradescantia zebrina. To call it a weed is an understatement. All of this overtaking my yard came from two 4 inch plastic containers from Urban Trail gardens. About $5. It grows […]

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