a lizard in the garden

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Links of Interest #2

Crafts/Projects/Ideas
Terrace Herb Display (made from Ikea GORM shelf)
A Space Saving Vertical Salad Garden
Host a Green Garden Party
Vegetable Patch Centerpiece
Three-layer Worm Composting bin (made from Ikea TROFAST bins)
Link
Articles
The Farmers' Market Myth - cheaper or more expensive?
Can Eating Local Honey Cure Allergies?

Food/Drink
Homemade Herb-infused Vodkas
Five Ways to Eat Sugar Snap Peas
Hibiscus is in - although I have never had any food with hibiscus, it is one of my favorite flowers, reminding me of my time in Bermuda. I am excited to see it making a presence in drinks & food!

Plants
Using Plants As Air filters
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alizardinthegarden
Cambridge, MA, United States
Zone 6 (average last frost-April 30th; average first frost-October 15th). I started this blog to chronicle my first gardening experience in a community plot in Boston's Fenway Victory Gardens. I now have a backyard garden in Cambridge. In addition to my own gardening story I hope to share tips, news and other things of interest I discover along the way! Happy Gardening!
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A quote to garden by:

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Thank You.
~ Marcel Proust

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I will always be thankful for this amazing community garden that provided me with my first gardening experience.

2012 Harvest Report

Bean [Kentucky Wonder Pole] - 130

Cabbage [Savoy] - 1
Carrot [Little
Finger] - 2
Carrot [Danvers
] - 5
Cucumber [Burpee Gold Standard
] - 2
Eggplant [
Black Beauty] - 7

Eggplant [Little Finger] - 7
Lettuce [
Boston] - 42 oz

Lettuce [Romaine] - 3
Pea [
Sugar Snap] - 31
Pepper [
Venetian] - 3

Squash [Honey Nut Mini] - 0
Strawberry [
Everbearing] - 6
Strawberry [
Junebearing] - 59
Tomato [Bush Cherry] - 30

Tomato [Grafted Brandywine] - 1

Tomato [Grafted San Marzano] - 106

Tomato [Sugary] - 47
Tomato [
Sunsugar] - 71


updated 10/12/12

2011 - Year Three

  • 2011 Harvest Recap

2010 - Year Two

  • 2010 Harvest Recap

2009 - My First Year

  • 2009 Harvest Recap

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Pinterest

  • Liz's Gardening Board

Tips & Techniques

  • The Best Way to Keep Cilantro Fresh
  • Homemade & Natural Pest Remedies
  • How to Clone Your Herbs
  • Make Your Own Tomato Cages
  • Storing & Preserving Basil
  • Keeping Your Squash Under Control
  • How to Grow Potatoes in Straw
  • Annie's Homemade Seed Mat Tutorial
  • 50 Ways to Never Waste Food Again
  • Choosing a Pepper based on whether it is Male or Female
  • Keep Your Strawberries Out of the Dirt
  • Pruning Tomatoes

Recipes from the Garden

  • Chive Blossom Vinegar
  • Fresh Pea Soup
  • Garlic Scape Pizza & Pesto
  • Lemon Verbena Tisane
  • Pickled Sugar Snap Peas

Favorite Gardening Blogs

  • Skippy's Vegetable Garden
    My Garden Today
    1 year ago
  • greens and jeans
    100 Days Project
    6 years ago
  • the back quarter acre
    Garden goal roll, 2017
    8 years ago
  • My Skinny Garden
    Re-entry
    9 years ago
  • Toni's Weedless Square Foot Garden
    Thank you Mother Nature...
    10 years ago
  • Garden Party
    2014 Best Spring Planting Dates for Seeds for Yelm, WA
    11 years ago
  • My Square Foot Garden
    Garden In Minutes
    11 years ago
  • dreams and bones
    August joy
    11 years ago
  • Garden Misadventures
    It feels like a late opening...
    13 years ago
  • Gardening Without Skills
    The Secret to Chicken Happiness only costs a buck
    14 years ago
  • The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
  • A Growing Tradition

Favorite Gardening Websites

  • American Community Garden Association
  • Boston Natural Areas Network
  • Burpee Seeds & Plants
  • Cornell University Gardening Resources
  • Fenway Victory Gardens
  • Garden Web
  • Gardener's Supply Company
  • National Climatic Data Center - MA Freeze/Frost Occurrence Data
  • National Garden Association
  • New England Vegetable Management Guide
  • Organic Gardening
  • Revive the Victory Garden
  • SGF Interactive Group
  • Square Foot Gardening (SFG)
  • Territorial Seed Company
  • The Garden Girl
  • The Old Farmer's Almanac
  • UMass Vegetable Program
  • You Grow Girl

Books to Garden By

  • All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
  • Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening by Louise Riotte
  • Great Garden Companions by Sally Jean Cunningham
  • The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden: A Blueprint for Continuous Color by Lee Schneller
  • The New Self-Sufficient Gardener by John Seymour
  • The Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Edward C. Smith
  • The Way We Garden Now by Katherine Whiteside
  • You Grow Girl by Gayla Trail

Other great sites & blogs I follow...

  • Bakerella
  • Craftzine
  • Cupcakes Take The Cake
  • Design Sponge
  • Food in Jars
  • Ikea Hacker
  • Joy the Baker
  • Not Martha
  • Obama Foodorama
  • Smitten Kitchen
  • The Big Red Kitchen
  • The Kitchn

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Awards

2009 - Best New Gardener - FVG North Center section
2009 - Best Produce - FVG Fensfest (Cabbage)

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