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A Few New Experiments For This Summer’s Garden
What’s a garden season without a few experiments? Gardeners are notorious for their adventurous spirit, trying all sorts of new contraptions and plant varieties in search of the next big thing. Each year, we try a few new different varieties and growing methods in our garden as well. All in an effort to find a new vegetable or crop we might like – or a better way to grow existing ones. A few years back – we grew our first crop of strawberry popcorn – having no clue how it would turn out – and it was a huge success! In fact, so much that we now grow three different kinds of popcorn and have enough to last us the year around. Of course – they don’t always work out, like our infamous leaf storing silo project that lasted until the first wind blew it over, or the attempt to transplant a huge ornamental grass in the summer – only to watch it wither away. But it is the successes that keep you going – like the Stake-A-Cage tomato stakes we created that have become a garden staple for us. (see: The Inexpensive DIY Tomato Stake-A-Cage). And of course, if you don’t keep trying – you never learn! So [...]
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